Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Northern Trans-Pennine Routes strategic study: stage 3 report, paragraph 1.4.1, published on 28 November 2016, for what reasons there is an error for the position of the Port of Heysham on the map in figure 1.1.

The government has announced that it intends to invest over £1bn upgrading the A66 between the M6 and the A1, to create the first new continuous dual carriageway link across the Pennines in 45 years. The Port of Heysham was misplaced in figure 1.1 as a result of a consultant error, and the document will be updated shortly to address this.