Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will consider conducting a refresh of the Roads Investment Strategy.

The third Road Investment Strategy (RIS3) was published in March 2026 and sets the funding, investment commitments, and performance expectations for National Highways over the five years from 2026/27 to 2030/31. The underpinning rationale for setting a RIS is to provide National Highways and its supply chain with a stable set of objectives on which to plan, and the Infrastructure Act 2015 requires the Secretary of State to have regard to the desirability of maintaining certainty and stability in respect of Road Investment Strategies.

The Department consulted over the summer on proposed changes to RIS3 to help fund the government's Defence Investment Plan and will announce the outcome of this consultation in due course.