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.
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