Roads: Capital Investment

(asked on 12th March 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the value attributed to a prevented fatality in business cases for road investment.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 21st March 2024

This assessment is already happening. The Department is part of a cross-government consortium that keeps values for life and health impacts, including the value of a prevented fatality, under review and is developing plans to take forward the recommendations in the 2020 scoping study Valuation of risks to life and health: Monetary Value of a Life Year.

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