Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timeframe is for the next funding round for improvements to strategic local roads.

The most important local roads have been assigned Major Road Network status and are eligible for a new programme of funding. Scheme proposals for the first five years of Major Road Network and Large Local Majors funding were submitted in summer 2019.

A second announcement of a further six schemes for development funding, in the North and South West, was made on 11 February by the Prime Minister.

The timing of further announcements for funding scheme development and construction will be phased depending on how individual schemes progress.