To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of ALR Smart Motorways are without an Emergency Refuge Area at least every (a) 0.75 miles and (b) one mile.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Emergency Refuge Areas (ERAs) would require construction to ensure that all ALR Smart Motorways have one at least every one mile in addition to the extra 150 ERAs already pledged.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the estimated cost of retrofitting all current ALR Smart Motorways with an Emergency Refuge Area at least every one mile in addition to the £390 million already announced.

£390 million has already been committed towards retrofitting, which will see 150 additional emergency areas being added to ALR motorways in operation and construction by 2025. A decision on whether to retrofit across the remainder of ALR smart motorways will be considered as part of the formulation of the third Road Investment Strategy.

As of December 2021, 50.7 miles of operational All Lane Running motorways had emergency area average spacing between at least 0.75 miles and 1 mile apart. Work will start immediately on retrofitting the remaining operational network, so that it meets the latest standard of emergency area spacing being 0.75 mile where feasible, up to a maximum of 1 mile.