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Transport: Innovation

Asked by Greg SmithConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 12 June 2026UIN 7513

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2026 to Question 5446, if she will list the specific transport projects, in addition to the light rail infrastructure trial in Coventry, that have utilised the proportionate and flexible approach to approvals for innovative activity since 4 July 2024.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

A proportionate and flexible approach enables the department to use the most appropriate methodology to assess the value for money, including for an innovative activity, considering risk versus reward. Projects cannot meaningfully be defined as only innovative or not innovative, there is a spectrum that is considered in a proportionate and flexible way.

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