Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, at what level his Department values the reduction of risk of death per fatal casualty prevented; and if he will give an example of policy intervention where this evaluation was made.

I refer my Hon. Friend to my answer of 7 July 2014 [Official Report, column 167W].

The value of a prevented fatality is used in the appraisal for every infrastructure investment business case. It is also used in the Impact Assessments for relevant policy interventions. For example, the Impact Assessment on the new drug driving offence takes account of the value of preventing a fatality in assessing the overall impact of the offence. The latest Impact Assessment can be found at:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111117422/impacts