HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Grant Scheme
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, i) how much funding in total was granted to applicants to the HGV parking and driver welfare grant scheme ii) how much of this funding came directly from matched funding from the Department for Transport and iii) whether the department plans to re-open the scheme for further applications.
Answered by Keir Mather
The total amount of government funding contractually committed to improvement projects for the HGV Parking Matched Funding Grant Scheme, as of 19 March 2026, is £13,599,303.45.
The scheme held three application windows. The table below sets out awards and spending to date per window as of 19 March 2026. Projects that were cancelled by operators after notification of an award are not included in these figures.
Application window opened | Total awarded | Total - spend to date |
Window 1 - Nov 2022 | £5,427,497.05 | £4,754,717.54 |
Window 2 - Sept 2023 | £4,778,778.09 | £4,335,848.03 |
Window 3 - May 2024 | £3,393,028.31 | £1,852,762.51 |
Overall MFGS | £13,599,303.45 | £10,943,328.08 |
There are no plans for further windows of the HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Matched Funding Scheme.
Funding for further lorry parking improvements is planned for the third road investment strategy (RIS3) as part of the Customer and Community Designated Funds, subject to confirmation of the National Highways RIS3 settlement.
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