Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help improve highway safety on rural lanes.

We have awarded local authorities £185.8 million of funding between 2017 and 2024 through the Safer Roads Fund to improve the safety of England's most high risk 'A' roads. To date, it has funded 445.3 miles of rural roads which make up 62.4% of all funded routes.

We acknowledge there is more that can be done; therefore, my Department is developing a road safety strategy, the first in over ten years, and we will set out more details in due course.