Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Future of Roads)
Responsibilities
The Future of Roads Minister is responsible for:
- strategic roads, including:
- National Highways
- Road Investment Strategy (RIS)
- infrastructure planning and delivery
- road safety
- local roads and roads maintenance
- motoring agencies (DVLA, DVSA, VCA)
- haulage and future of freight
- Kent traffic
- EES and borders
- road vehicle decarbonisation
- environment strategy
- automated vehicles
- international vehicle standards
- traffic and technology
- roads accessibility
Current role holder
Lilian Greenwood MP
Lilian Greenwood was appointed Minister for the Future of Roads at the Department for Transport on 9 July 2024.
She was re-elected as the MP for Nottingham South in July 2024, and has represented the constituency since May 2010.
Lilian was Shadow Secretary of State for Transport between 2015 and 2016, also operating as Shadow Rail Minister from 2011 to 2015. Lilian was appointed Opposition Deputy Chief Whip by Sir Keir Starmer in May 2021, occupying the role until 2023 when she was made Shadow Minister for Arts, Heritage, and Civil Society.
Lilian also chaired the Transport Select Committee from July 2017 to January 2020.
Education
Lilian attended Canon Slade School in Bolton, before reading Economics and Social and Political Sciences St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge.
Career before politics
Lilian moved to Nottingham in 1992 to work for the National Union of Public Employees, now part of the public sector trade body UNISON.
Personal life
Away from work, Lilian is most likely to be walking in the hills, or at the theatre.