Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve safety on the A34 in Oxfordshire.

Highways England have undertaken an in-depth safety review of the A34 to identify incident ‘hot spots’ and to establish their causes.

They have made their recommendations to the Department of Transport on a package of safety improvements for the A34. The improvements remain on track for the start of works in 2019/20. As with all such schemes, the package remains subject to a positive value for money assessment at the end of the development process, before the start of construction.