Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department is making on formulating the second Roads Investment Strategy.

We are currently gathering and analysing evidence to inform the second Road Investment Strategy, which will determine investment in the strategic road network beyond 2020.

Core elements of this work are the six strategic studies, five of which were published last November, and Highways England’s 18 refreshed route strategies. This will be published in March.