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Question for Department for Transport

UIN 785, tabled on 12 May 2021

Question

Conor McGinn
Labour
St Helens North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has allocated to (a) young drivers’ awareness programmes and (b) safety campaigns in each year since 2010.

Answer

Rachel Maclean
Conservative
Redditch
Commons

Answered on

17 May 2021

Road awareness education and safety campaigns are crucial to improving safety for all road user groups. Between 2010 and 2017, our campaigns targeted a wider audience of road users, including young drivers.

Since 2017 Departmental spend has been primarily focused on young driver road safety campaigns. In order to have the greatest impact, THINK! Campaign activity focuses on those at greatest risk: male drivers aged 17-24.

To that end, since 2010, the Department has invested £47.9 million into awareness programmes and safety campaigns.

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