Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the proposed improvements of the M6 Junction 15 South of Manchester to Birmingham have entered the Road Improvement Strategy (a) programme and (b) development stage; whether formal approvals have been granted; and whether they will progress into the next strategy phase.

Improvements to Junction 15 of the M6 were originally announced in the second Road Investment Strategy, published in 2019 as part of the pipeline of projects being considered for possible delivery in a future RIS. Network North recommitted this scheme for delivery and National Highways is evaluating which options for the scheme will proceed to the next stage of development.