Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to invest in improving the M6.

As part of the Government’s £15 billion investment in the strategic road network announced on the 1^st December, the Department for Transport’s Road Investment Strategy includes committed funding for enhancements to the M6. This includes four schemes already committed to upgrade the most heavily congested parts of the M6 to Smart Motorway, which will add an extra lane through the use of the hard shoulder as part of the "smart spine", a 145 mile corridor linking London and Manchester and improvements to three junctions to increase capacity and provide better access to local employment and development sites.