Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that road infrastructure works on the A35 Sea Road South are not indefinitely delayed due to funding constraints.

Improvements across the strategic road network are evidence led, and National Highways will continue to use a prioritisation matrix to ensure that schemes are progressed in line with the associated need across the network. As such the proposed safety improvements running between Charmouth and Yellowham, inclusive of Sea Road South, have been allocated funding for 2025/26.