PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Roads: Capital Investment (12 March 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the value attributed to a prevented fatality in business cases for road investment.

Asked by:
Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat)

This assessment is already happening. The Department is part of a cross-government consortium that keeps values for life and health impacts, including the value of a prevented fatality, under review and is developing plans to take forward the recommendations in the 2020 scoping study Valuation of risks to life and health: Monetary Value of a Life Year.

Answered by:
Guy Opperman (Conservative)
21 March 2024