Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve road safety in (a) the West Midlands (b) Coventry.

The British Road Safety Statement sets out the Government’s commitment to improve road safety and reduce the number of people killed or injured on the roads every year.

In 2017/18 the Department allocated £31.383 million to the West Midlands through the Integrated Transport Block for capital investment in small transport improvement projects, including road safety. £17.618 million of that is going to the West Midlands Combined Authority, of which Coventry is a member.

For maintenance of the local road network in 2017/18 the Department has allocated £95.523 million to the West Midlands, with £15.879 million of that going to the West Midlands Combined Authority.

It is for each authority to decide how it allocates its resources and which transport improvement projects to support.