patrick mcloughlin

16/07/2013

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced details of a new policy paper entitled 'Action for roads: a network for the 21st century' that outlines new arrangements for the Highways Agency and commits to providing funding for roads.

08/08/2013

Roads in Cumbria that were damaged by devastating flooding in 2009 will be repaired after the Government announced that the county council is set to receive a further £7.2 million.

12/09/2013

Local people who regularly use the Dartford-Thurrock Crossing will receive an improved discount.

27/09/2013

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced £80 million of further funding to remove bottlenecks from local roads.

12/12/2013

The Government has dropped one of the options for a new Lower Thames crossing and will carry out further work on the remaining two.

16/12/2013

The government has approved funding to tackle a number of congested local roads and improve key points on the strategic road network.

16/01/2014

A £150 million Highways Agency scheme to widen the A453 in the East Midlands is progressing well.

17/02/2014

A contribution of at least £5 million is needed to avert a crisis on the roads of North Yorkshire.

11/03/2014

An extra £140million is being made available by the government to help repair flood-damaged roads.

12/03/2014

Staffordshire could benefit from extra government funding to tackle repairs on the county’s roads.

20/03/2014

Local authorities across England have been told how much funding they will receive to help repair flood-damaged roads.

01/04/2014

Foreign lorry drivers will be charged to use UK roads for the first time from today (1 April 2014).

30/04/2014

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has approved wide-ranging reforms to the Highways Agency that will see it become a government-owned company in less than a year.

01/05/2014

Work will get underway this month on the A5-M1 link road improvement scheme.

14/05/2014

The president of the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) remains unconvinced by plans to turn the Highways Agency into a government-owned company. 

23/06/2014

The government is set to ban the use of CCTV ‘spy cars’ in an effort to rein-in over zealous parking enforcement practices.  

08/07/2014

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has approved three new smart motorway schemes on the M1 and M3, but has rejected proposals to limit speeds to 60mph between 7am and 7pm seven days a week .

09/07/2014

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has outlined the government's vision for the road network and wants the industry to have the ‘right people, with the right skills’ to implement its £24bn investment plan.

15/07/2014

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced that the government will undertake detailed planning of two possible locations for a new Lower Thames Crossing.

13/08/2014

Road repairs will be carried out as part of a £10 million package of transport improvement works on the Isles of Scilly.

10/09/2014

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin was given a tour of the Royal British Legion Industries’ new road and rails sign printing facility earlier this week.

01/12/2014

Details of a £15 billion roads investment strategy have been revealed by the government today (1 December 2014) ­– with 84 new road projects outlined.

12/12/2014

A £105 million upgrade of the last remaining single carriageway section of the A11 to dual carriageway has been completed.

29/12/2014

The government will spend £6 billion on tackling potholes and improving local roads between 2015 and 2021.

13/01/2015

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has called for an integrated transport network for the north.

27/01/2015

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin visited the Dartford Crossing yesterday (26 January 2015) to see the new Dart Charge payment system in action.

06/03/2015

Drivers will now get a 10-minute grace period before being given a parking ticket under new measures introduced by the government.

19/03/2015

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has officially opened the new headquarters of Highways England – the government-owned company that will take over the running of England’s motorways and A-roads from 1 April 2015.

24/03/2015

Twenty eight councils across England will receive a share of £275 million for major local roads maintenance after winning government funding.

24/03/2015

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin officially marked the start of work on a £56 million scheme that will see improvements made to the A30 in Cornwall.

01/06/2015

The government has confirmed that it will spend £13 billion on transforming transport in the north – including making major improvements to the A1, M62, M1 and A555 and looking at building a road tunnel under the Peak District.

13/07/2015

Construction of the Broughton Bypass in Lancashire is due to start towards the end of this year after Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin confirmed orders allowing the county council to buy land needed for the scheme.

11/08/2015

The government is set to unveil a blueprint for how £13 billion of government investment in transport will help create the Northern Powerhouse today (11 August 2015).

28/08/2015

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has set up a new taskforce to deal with pointless road signs.

23/09/2015

Stretches of roadworks on motorways and A-roads in England should be shortened in an effort to ease traffic congestion, the government has urged.

29/12/2015

The government will provide £40 million worth of funding to help repair flood-damaged roads and bridges in Cumbria and Lancashire.

04/01/2016

The Department for Transport has unveiled a raft of measures to improve the safety of Britain’s roads.

04/01/2016

A new £26.5 million link road in Crewe has been officially opened.   

27/01/2016

Councils and utility companies could face paying fines of up to £5,000 a day if roadworks are left unmanned at weekends.

28/01/2016

Targets for the creation of new apprenticeships will be written into contracts as the government sets out to deliver on its ambition for 30,000 apprenticeships in the road and rail sector by 2020.

10/02/2016

Work to repair the storm-damaged A591 in Cumbria has started.

07/03/2016

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin visited Norfolk last week and took a look at the early work being carried out on the Norwich Northern Distributor Road (NNDR).  

16/03/2016

Essex County Council want the Secretary of State for Transport to make a decision on the new Lower Thames Crossing as soon as possible after public consultation on its proposed route options closes on 24 March.

07/04/2016

The Department for Transport (DfT) has set out how £50 million of funding will be spent on repairing almost one million potholes across the country over the next year.

11/04/2016

The storm-damaged A591 in Cumbria will reopen next month (May).

11/05/2016

The storm-damaged A591 in Cumbria was reopened today (Wednesday 11 May) – three weeks sooner than originally planned.

19/05/2016

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has set out the government’s plans for transport and infrastructure.

28/06/2016

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin says investment in infrastructure is now more important than ever.

30/06/2016

Stephen Glaister has been reappointed chair of the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) until December 2017.

06/07/2016

A major new lorry area will be built near Stanford in Kent to help ease the problems caused on the M20 and surrounding areas when Operation Stack is implemented.

07/07/2016

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has officially opened a £61 million A1 upgrade near Gateshead today (7 July 2016).  

11/07/2016

The public are being invited to have their say on the use of automated cars on British roads as part of a Department for Transport (DfT) consultation.

14/07/2016

Chris Grayling is the government’s new Transport Secretary.

11/01/2017

A former special adviser to previous Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has admitted that the Government spent far too much time working on rail policy and “not enough on roads”.