Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will provide a breakdown of planned spend for the £34 million allocated to support commercial deployment of connected and self-driving technologies.

£34 million of funding has been allocated to the Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles by the Department for Transport, as set out in the Connected and Automated Mobility 2025 paper, to support the creation of a safety and security assurance framework.

Of this funding, £26 million is allocated to research and development of technical safety standards, social and behavioural research, and safety assurance methodologies. £8 million is allocated to the development of new processes within the Department’s Motoring Agencies.