Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Oxford-Cambridge Arc on improvements to road links between the M4 and the south coast.

The Oxford-Cambridge Arc represents a strategic growth corridor with the potential to facilitate sustainable economic, social, and environmental development for the region, and its impact on the transport system is multi-modal. It is recognised that additional analytical work will be necessary to comprehensively assess the interdependencies and areas of alignment with parallel studies, including the M4 to Dorset corridor study.