Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2025 to Question 82751 on HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Fund, what the total budget was for that fund; how much of that budget remains unspent; and how that fund relates to the £14 million in joint government and industry funding announced on 9 October 2024 for improvements to freight working conditions.

As set out in my response to Question 82751 there have been three funding windows of the Lorry Parking and Driver Welfare Matched Funding Grant Scheme launched in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

£13,849,303.45 of government investment has been awarded in total across the three windows. This does not include projects that have been cancelled by operators to date, subsequent to receiving an award.

The 9 October 2024 announcement included up to £4.5 million government investment awarded in window 3 of the Grant, matched by up to £8 million industry investment. Four projects that were awarded funding in the third window have subsequently been cancelled by operators. The remaining funds in that announcement were investment for 10 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to trial new groundbreaking technology for decarbonising freight and driving innovation in the sector.

All applications that met the Lorry Parking and Driver Welfare Matched Funding Grant Scheme’s criteria were funded in each window. Investment therefore reflects demand from the truck stop and lorry parking industry. The Grant is on top of up to £30 million National Highways joint investment with industry in lorry parking.

Underspends against specific budgets are reallocated to other priorities within DfT where possible. Any departmental underspend at the end of the financial year is returned to HMT.