Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what additional funding his Department is providing to reduce congestion in York.

In addition to a share of the formula distribution of the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) in 2017/18 of £626,000, plus Integrated Transport Block funding for £1.57m in 2017/18 and 2018/19, all of which could be used for projects to ease congestion, the City of York Council was awarded a further £2.845m in October 2017 through a competition for NPIF funding.

The NPIF project in York, the Smart Travel Evolution Programme (STEP) will provide a city-wide digital platform supporting transport data collection and analysis, real-time transport modelling and travel information. It will interact with traffic control systems throughout the city and prepare York for the challenges and opportunities from the arrival of connected and autonomous vehicles.