Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps they are taking to help ensure that their Department (a) gives sufficient attention to long term strategic challenges, (b) does not allow current events to slow down work on long term strategic issues and (c) consistently undertakes horizon scanning.

The Department monitors and prepares for long-term strategic challenges as part of its regular work. Strategy teams exist for a range of transport modes and well-established structures and processes allow the Department to manage short-term operational issues while minimising the effect on long term work. In 2022, the Department established the Decarbonisation, Technology and Strategy Group, reporting directly to the Second Permanent Secretary, which brings together cross-modal teams to work on long-term strategic issues and undertake horizon scanning.