News and communications

Strategic approach builds on £36 billion funding from Network North plan to help strengthen connections across the UK.

• Updated: 7 December 2023

Government response to Union connectivity review includes multimillion-pound funding to improve transport links across UK.

• Updated: 7 December 2023

Funding will help to reduce congestion, improve connectivity and generate more than £72 million in benefits for Greater Manchester and Stockport.

• Updated: 30 November 2023

Redirected HS2 funding totalling £8.3 billion to support biggest-ever road resurfacing programme across England.

• Updated: 20 November 2023

Redirected HS2 funding to resurface more than 5,000 miles of road across the country, improving journeys for all.

• Updated: 17 November 2023

The deadline for the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine DCO decision has been extended until 7 March 2024.

• Updated: 8 November 2023

The competition will award grants to businesses that seek to provide solutions to some of transport’s most-pressing issues, including decarbonisation.  

• Updated: 23 October 2023

Funding from the Levelling Up Fund has provisionally been allocated to create two new bridges in Lincoln. This will alleviate traffic on nearby roads and create new links to the Western Growth Corridor development.

• Updated: 23 October 2023

Outlining the Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate, the Plan for Drivers and Network North.

• Updated: 16 October 2023

The Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner's letter to Mark Harper MP, Secretary of State for Transport, regarding the risks to the ANPR system.

• Updated: 11 October 2023

Multibillion-pound plan to link major cities in the North via bus, rail and new and improved roads.

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Multibillion-pound plan to link major cities in the North via bus, rail and new and improved roads.

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Multibillion-pound plan to link major cities in the North via bus, rail and new and improved roads.

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Multibillion-pound plan to improve connectivity across the country includes reopening rail services to Wellington and Cullompton.  

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Multibillion-pound plan to include funding for better links between the Cairnryan ferry terminals serving Northern Ireland and South West Scotland.

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Multibillion-pound plan to link major cities via bus, rail and new and improved roads includes funding for South East transport schemes.

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Multibillion-pound plan to improve connectivity across the country includes funding to double passenger services from Ely to King’s Lynn and Ipswich to Peterborough.

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Plan to provide faster journey times across the UK includes bringing parts of North Wales within an hour of Manchester through upgrade of the North Wales Main Line.

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Multibillion-pound plan to link major cities in the North via bus, rail and new and improved roads.

• Updated: 4 October 2023

Multibillion-pound plan to link major cities in the North via bus, rail and new and improved roads.

• Updated: 4 October 2023