Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new miles of motorway and trunk road are planned for the next five years.

A total of 716.4 additional lane miles are planned over the next five years. This consists of schemes both currently under construction and those planned to start construction within the next five years.

There are currently fourteen schemes in construction that will deliver 239.9 additional lane miles.

A further twenty two schemes are currently scheduled to start construction within the next five years and they will add an additional 476.5 lane miles.

By way of context, five schemes have been started and already completed under the current Administration, adding 64.4 additional lane miles.