Road professionals

Monitoring smart motorways

13 March 2025

We are responsible for monitoring and enforcing the performance and efficiency of National Highways in its delivery of the Smart Motorway Action Plan.

Safety continues to improve on England’s Strategic Road Network but National Highways unlikely to meet challenging target

13 March 2025

Safety continues to improve on England’s motorways and major A-roads, but National Highways is unlikely to meet its main safety target set by government, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said today in its third annual assessment of safety on the strategic road network.

Office of Rail and Road March 2025 newsletter

4 March 2025

Spending figures

18 February 2025

Details of payments in excess of £25,000 which have been made to our suppliers each month.

Civil Service people survey

3 February 2025

ORR's civil service survey results.

National Highways licence monitoring and enforcement

30 January 2025

Our monitoring framework and enforcement policy for National Highways, and how we monitor the company’s performance and identify, escalate and resolve areas of concern.

ORR’s contribution to climate resilience on the rail and strategic road networks

29 November 2024

How does National Highways’ performance vary across England?

20 November 2024

Benchmarking National Highways' performance and efficiency

20 November 2024

One of our core activities is to benchmark National Highways' performance and efficiency across its own regional areas or against comparable organisations.

Safety performance on the strategic road network

15 October 2024

Each year we assess National Highways’ performance against a range of government set targets that it should deliver over the second road period (RP2, which runs from 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2025).

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