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Written Question
Driverless Vehicles
Tuesday 19th December 2023

Asked by: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Conservative - Life peer)

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.

Answered by Lord Davies of Gower - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

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.


Written Question
Driverless Vehicles: Standards
Monday 11th September 2023

Asked by: Alun Cairns (Conservative - Vale of Glamorgan)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) legal and (b) industry standards for emerging technologies for autonomous vehicles.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The Government paper “Connected & Automated Mobility 2025: realising the benefits of self-driving vehicles in the UK” sets out the Government’s plans to support the development and deployment of safe self-driving vehicles in the UK. This includes proposals for a comprehensive regulatory, legislative and safety framework. The Department remains committed to these plans will bring forward primary legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows.

Alongside developing legal and regulatory frameworks, the government has committed £100 million of new Research and Development funding following the Government’s Spending Review for the period 2022/23 to 2024/25, which is allocated to the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) through two Departments:

  1. £66 million in the Department for Business and Trade to support commercial deployment of connected and self-driving technologies.
  2. £34 million in the Department for Transport (DfT) for creation of a safety assurance framework for self-driving vehicles.


Written Question
Driverless Vehicles
Monday 11th September 2023

Asked by: Alun Cairns (Conservative - Vale of Glamorgan)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department’s latest plans are to support the rollout of autonomous vehicles.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The Government paper “Connected & Automated Mobility 2025: realising the benefits of self-driving vehicles in the UK” sets out the Government’s plans to support the development and deployment of safe self-driving vehicles in the UK. This includes proposals for a comprehensive regulatory, legislative and safety framework. The Department remains committed to these plans will bring forward primary legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows.

Alongside developing legal and regulatory frameworks, the government has committed £100 million of new Research and Development funding following the Government’s Spending Review for the period 2022/23 to 2024/25, which is allocated to the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) through two Departments:

  1. £66 million in the Department for Business and Trade to support commercial deployment of connected and self-driving technologies.
  2. £34 million in the Department for Transport (DfT) for creation of a safety assurance framework for self-driving vehicles.


Written Question
Driverless Vehicles
Thursday 13th July 2023

Asked by: Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to regulate the use of autonomous vehicles.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The Government paper “Connected & Automated Mobility 2025: realising the benefits of self-driving vehicles in the UK” sets out government’s plans to support the development and deployment of safe self-driving vehicles in the UK. This includes proposals for a comprehensive regulatory, legislative and safety framework.

The Department is committed to these plans and will introduce primary legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows.


Written Question
Transport: Innovation
Monday 17th April 2023

Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2023 to Question 168095 on Transport: Innovation, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of any delay in implementing recommendation 4 of Sir Patrick Vallance's review on investment in the UK.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The Government is continuing to work closely with industry to support investment in innovative transport modes across the UK.

On 1 February, the Business Secretary announced £82m of joint government and industry R&D funding for seven Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) projects to pilot commercial passenger freight services.

To support further funding, the sector, and future investment in the UK, Government is committed to bringing forward Future of Transport legislation when parliamentary time allows.


Written Question
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Public Consultation
Wednesday 5th April 2023

Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, which consultations published by their Department are awaiting a response; and when each of those responses (a) were initially planned to and (b) will be published.

Answered by George Freeman

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology was created in February 2023. The Department has not issued any consultations for which a response is outstanding.

As part of the Machinery of Government changes, we inherited 5 ongoing consultations from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport:

- The future of connected and automated mobility in the UK: call for evidence;

- Project Gigabit: open market review request for information - Wales;

- Wireless Infrastructure Strategy: call for evidence;

- Open Market Review: Superfast and Gigabit broadband infrastructure in Scotland - request for information;

- Online Advertising Programme.

We will respond to these consultations as soon as possible.


Written Question
Transport: Innovation
Monday 27th March 2023

Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an estimate of the timescale needed for implementation of recommendation 4 of Sir Patrick Vallance’s Pro-innovation Regulation of Technologies Review: Digital Technologies.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The Government Response to Sir Patrick Vallance’s Report outlined that it is committed to bringing forward and implementing legislation on the future of transport when parliamentary time allows.

The Government has set out in its Connected & Automated Mobility 2025 paper that it plans to put in place a legal framework enabling the deployment and operation of self-driving vehicles by 2025.


Written Question
Driverless Vehicles
Tuesday 28th February 2023

Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on bringing forward legislative proposals to enable the use of autonomous vehicles on roads.

Answered by Jesse Norman

In August 2022 the Government published ‘Connected & Automated Mobility 2025: Realising the benefits of self-driving vehicles in the UK’, setting out the government’s vision to enable the deployment of self-driving vehicles in the UK by 2025. This includes bringing forward proposals for a comprehensive regulatory, legislative and safety framework. The Government intends to introduce legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows.


Written Question
Driverless Vehicles
Tuesday 31st January 2023

Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Kilburn)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to facilitate the (a) development and (b) deployment of self-driving vehicles in the UK.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The UK Code of Practice for trialling self-driving vehicles on public roads is recognised as one of the most open in the world. Government is working to consider whether updates to the Code of Practice are needed to support advanced trials.

Since 2015, the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles has enabled joint public and private investment of over £400 million into connected and self-driving vehicle innovation and has supported over 90 collaborative projects, involving over 200 organisations. These projects include £200m to establish a globally unique testing infrastructure.

In August 2022 the government published ‘Connected & Automated Mobility 2025: Realising the benefits of self-driving vehicles in the UK’, setting out its work to enable the deployment of self-driving vehicles in the UK by 2025. This includes bringing forward proposals for a comprehensive regulatory, legislative and safety framework.

Over the next three years, government will provide a further £100m of funding for Connected and Automated Mobility technology research and innovation, with £66m aimed at progressing from technology development towards commercial deployment, and £34m to support research into connected and self-driving vehicle safety assurance and preparation within the motoring agencies to carry out their new roles.


Written Question
Driverless Vehicles
Tuesday 25th October 2022

Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central)

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.

Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

£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.