Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the £100 million of new R&D funding to support commercial deployment of connected and self-driving technologies and the creation of a safety assurance framework, announced in Connected & Automated Mobility 2025: Realising the benefits of self-driving vehicles in the UK, published in August 2022, from which specific departmental budget headings that spending will be funded.

Of the £100 million funding allocated to the Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, as set out in the Connected and Automated Mobility 2025 paper:

• £66 million will be funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's research and development funding to support commercialisation of the technologies.
• £34 million will be funded by the Department for Transport. Of this, £26 million is allocated to research and development of technical safety standards, social and behavioural research, and safety assurance methodologies. £8 million is allocated to the development of new processes within the Department’s Motoring Agencies.