Motorways: Safety

(asked on 2nd May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2023 to Question 182337 on Motorways: Safety, how much and what proportion of the (a) £21.9 million on planning and (b) £37.4 million on design of those cancelled smart motorway schemes was spent in each of the financial years between 2010-11 and 2022-23.


Answered by
Richard Holden Portrait
Richard Holden
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
This question was answered on 9th May 2023

The following table identifies the annual breakdown of the spending on planning and design, for the 11 paused (now cancelled) schemes.

Planning*

Design*

2015/16

0.1

2016/17

0.7

2017/18

4.1

2018/19

8.7

2019/20

4.5

0.6

2020/21

1.2

12.1

2021/22

2.3

19.8

2022/23

0.3

4.9

*All values in £ million

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