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Whitehall backs safety data sharing pilot

11/07/2025

Senior Whitehall officials have announced a potentially 'transformational' pilot to share data between the Department for Transport and the Department for Health and Social Care.

And she taketh away: Transport secretary axes road schemes worth over £1bn

09/07/2025

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has axed key road schemes worth over £1bn and hinted more could follow.

Top roads chief steps down from DfT

13/05/2025

One of the most important figures in roads policy over the last decade, the Department for Transport's head of future roads strategy and investment, Philip Andrews, is stepping down from his role and leaving the civil service.

Hydrogen machinery now permitted on UK roads

30/04/2025

The minister for the future of roads, Lilian Greenwood MP, signed a statutory instrument that allowed the use of hydrogen-fuelled agricultural and construction machinery on public roads from 29 April.

Protect National Highways from quango review ‘crosshairs’

16/04/2025

The sector has raised concerns that National Highways' functions could be in the crosshairs of a Cabinet Office review of all government quangos, with a view to potentially closing any that cannot justify their existence.

£4.7bn Local Transport Fund ‘under review’, DfT says

28/01/2025

The Department for Transport has distanced itself from the previous Government’s ‘Network North’ pledge of £4.7bn for north and midlands councils.

DfT puts emphasis on efficiency for new strategy

15/01/2025

The Department for Transport has confirmed that it is continuing work on the new long-term transport strategy first planned by former secretary of state Louise Haigh.

Alexander replaces Haigh as transport secretary

29/11/2024

Heidi Alexander has been appointed as transport secretary after the resignation of Louise Haigh.

NAO gives damning verdict on DfT's approach to local roads

23/07/2024

Parliament’s spending watchdog has slammed the Department for Transport (DfT) for a lack of knowledge on the condition of the English local road network and what local authority funding is achieving.

'Move fast and fix things': DfT has new motto and new ministerial team

10/07/2024

Transport secretary Louise Haigh has set out a new motto for the Department for Transport and her ministerial team - 'move fast and fix things'.

LGA launches attack on DfT over traffic fine surplus plans

17/05/2024

Council bosses have hit back at the Department for Transport over plans to restrict their ability to generate surpluses from traffic contraventions, calling the plans misguided and even questioning whether the Government violated pre-election rules.

DfT top official says carbon 'as high on agenda as ever'

18/04/2024

The £30m ADEPT Live Labs 2 programme has celebrated its first year with a live Expo setting out its achievements.

Bizarre turn: DfT keeps 'transparency' plans private

23/02/2024

The Government has adjusted the timetable for local authorities to publish resurfacing schemes on their websites following the Network North plan, which pledged £8.3bn over the next decade for local roads.

Traffic signals cash to get amber light this month

06/02/2024

Officials are battling to keep to the timetable for sharing out £40m of Government funding to help English local authorities update their traffic signal equipment after nearly all eligible councils applied.

Watchdog rules against DfT in defeat device case

14/12/2023

The information rights watchdog has ruled that the Department for Transport (DfT) was wrong to refuse to disclose details of vehicle manufacturers’ use of ‘defeat devices’.

Exclusive: End of an era as DfT drops self-assessment process

09/10/2023

The Department for Transport has ended the highways self-assessment process, removing the incentive element of local maintenance capital funding in its current form, Highways understands.

DfT faces Court of Appeal challenge over kerb heights

16/08/2023

A disability campaigner has won the right to take her case to the Court of Appeal in a legal battle over the Department for Transport's minimum kerb height guidance.

DfT appoints second permanent secretary

04/05/2023

The Department for Transport (DfT) has appointed Jo Shanmugalingam as its new second permanent secretary, alongside Dame Bernadette Kelly DCB.

Exclusive: Highways self-assessment process set for ministerial review

06/02/2023

The Department for Transport has confirmed that 'a submission will be going to ministers' on the future of the highways Incentive Fund self-assessment process.

Little scope for new schemes in RIS 3, DfT says

03/02/2023

The Department for Transport’s permanent secretary has warned of ‘very limited’ headroom for new enhancement projects in the third Road Investment Strategy due to the cost of projects carried forward from the current roads period.

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