Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on which sections of the M1 motorway reduced speed limits were operating because of roadworks taking place or being planned on 31 August 2015.

The following sections of the M1 were operating at reduced speed limits on the 31 August 2015 due to roadworks taking place:

M1 J11-12, M1 J15-19, M1 J28-31, M1 J32-35a, and M1 J39-42.

These roadworks all relate to road upgrades, part of an ambitious £15.2bn plan of capital investment to improve the capacity and condition of England’s motorways and major ‘A’ roads which includes a tripling of the annual level of investment on road enhancements by the end of the decade.