Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assistance, financial or otherwise, they have provided to businesses in the development of automated vehicles.

Government, through the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, a joint DfT and DBT specialist policy unit, has jointly committed with industry more than £600m to the development of Automated Vehicles between 2015 and 2025.

CCAV is currently supporting 20 projects with £50m of government funding to further operationalise CAM technologies and services.

In the recently published Advanced Manufacturing Plan, Government also committed to long-term support for Connected and Automated Mobility with up to £150m in the five-year period to 2030.