Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what projection he has made for the timeline of the transition of the A1(M) to a smart motorway.

The Department for Transport issued its Road Investment Strategy in December 2014. In this plan we set out details of the £15 billion to be invested in the England’s Strategic Road Network between 2015/16 and 2020/21. The A1(M) junctions 6 to 8 is one of the East of England schemes in this Strategy.

This scheme is in its early stages of development. The current forecast start of construction works in this scheme is March 2020 and the current forecast end of construction is July 2021. Both dates are provisional and subject to confirmation once the detailed design stage is completed.