Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) National Highways and (b) its predecessor agencies providing evidence to coroners’ inquests relating to smart motorways in financial year (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20, (iii) 2020-21, (iv) 2021-22 and (v) 2022-23.
National Highways processes do not capture time spent by their staff on supporting coroner’s inquests.