Asked by: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of his Department's funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Spending Review 2015 set out settlements for departments and showed how the government will deliver on its priorities, eliminate the deficit, and deliver security and opportunity for working people.
Final decisions on internal departmental funding allocations for future years, including for research and development, have not yet been made.
Asked by: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to build new and upgrade existing trunk roads.
Answered by John Hayes
In December this Government set out the biggest, boldest and most far-reaching roads programme for decades. It will dramatically improve England’s strategic road network and unlock our economic potential.
Over 100 strategic road projects are being taken forward as part of the £15.2 billion investment between 2015 and 2021. This amounts to a tripling of annual investment in road improvements from today’s levels to over £3 billion a year by 2021.
This month Highways England will publish its Delivery Plan setting out the next steps in putting this into effect.