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175186

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to relieve congestion on roads.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	907150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government has an ambitious strategy for tackling congestion and improving the performance of our roads. The performance specification in the Road Investment Strategy will set plans for tackling congestion over the network as a whole, and a series of enhancements will address specific pinch points and problem areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 22/01/2015 13:04:05 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

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registered interest
date	12/12/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the amount of working time lost because of traffic jams in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	218543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Estimates of the amount of working time lost because of traffic jams are not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Department does produce statistics on congestion on locally managed roads by monitoring average speeds on these roads during the weekday morning peak, defined as 7am to 10am. Average speeds are measured in both directions of travel.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also produces statistics on the reliability of journeys on the strategic road network by monitoring the percentage of journeys that are ‘on time’.</p><p> </p><p>These statistics and supporting information can be found at:</p><p><a target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/road-congestion-and-reliability-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>In addition, estimates of modelled total lost time, defined as the additional time spent travelling compared to that in free flow conditions (but not necessarily held up in traffic jams), are available through the Department’s National Transport Model (NTM). The NTM only models certain years and is mostly used for forecasting future years. However, the model forecasted that in 2010 a total of 41Million Working Days were lost in England on all roads.</p><p> </p><p>Although national traffic levels have been broadly static for the last ten years, this masks increasing traffic on motorways which reached a record high of 64.5 billion miles in the year ending September 2014. Given the latest trends and available evidence, it is reasonable to plan for growing levels of traffic, particularly on the Strategic Road Network.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, we have recently announced the biggest road investment in decades, with plans to triple levels of spending by the end of the decade and add over 1,300 new lane miles through schemes being delivered over the next parliament on motorways and trunk roads, tackling congestion and fixing some of the most notorious and longstanding problem areas on the network.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 18/12/2014 13:57:24 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

90199

registered interest
date	01/09/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the average number of vehicles on an average day on (a) the strategic road network and (b) local roads in the most recent year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	207585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong>Robert Goodwill</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The table below includes the annual average daily flow for the strategic road network, local authority managed major roads and minor roads in England for 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Department for Transport statistics</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport/series/road-traffic-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transport/series/road-traffic-statistics</a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Motor vehicle flow by road class and road management, England, 2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Annual average daily flow <sup>1</sup> </strong></p></td><td><p>Vehicles a day</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Highways Agency (HA) managed roads</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Local authority (LA) managed roads</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motorways</p></td><td><p>'A' roads</p></td><td><p>All HA roads</p></td><td><p>Major roads</p></td><td><p>Minor roads</p></td><td><p>All LA roads</p></td><td><p>All Roads</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><sup>82,500</sup></p></td><td><p><sup>31,200</sup></p></td><td><p><sup>52,800</sup></p></td><td><p><sup>13,300</sup></p></td><td><p><sup>1,500</sup></p></td><td><p><sup>2,600</sup></p></td><td><p><sup>3,800</sup></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> The calculation for the annual average daily flow is estimated by dividing the annual traffic estimate by the road length</p><p> </p><p>Source: DfT National Road Traffic Survey. Last updated: June 2014. The figures in this table are National Statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 04/09/2014 13:34:01 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

66199

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to reduce congestion (a) in Windsor constituency and (b) around Heathrow Airport.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	204116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Transport investment is central to the Government's long term economic plan. On 7<sup>th</sup> July we announced £3 billion of funding for new local transport schemes within the Local Growth Fund. This included £96.9 million for the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (which includes Windsor). Of this, £94.6 million will support transport schemes that have been bid for by the LEP and will make a real difference to transport accessibility in the whole of the Thames Valley. These include provisional funding from 2016/17 onwards of £4.75 million for a sustainable transport package across the Thames Valley LEP area.</p><p> </p><p>Local transport in the Windsor and Maidenhead area has, since 2010, also benefited from investment that will reduce congestion in the area. This includes just over £2 million of Local Pinch Point Funding, £16.1million investment in improving the state of the roads and on small scale transport schemes and around £2 million from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund to ease congestion by promoting travel behaviour change through a package of sustainable travel measures aimed at residents, schools and businesses.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to investment in the local network the Government continues to progress the M4 smart motorway. A further formal public consultation on the scheme will be held in the autumn and subject to development consent and the final business case, construction could start in late Summer 2016. As well as this the Highways Agency is taking forward a £2.5 million scheme to improve the links between the M4 and A329(M), to provide increased capacity at the junction and improve traffic flows. The scheme will be delivered by the end of March 2015.</p><p>The Government is also investing around £500 million in Western Rail Access to Heathrow subject to a satisfactory business case and agreement of acceptable terms with the Heathrow aviation industry. This will facilitate direct rail services between destinations in the Thames Valley and Heathrow airport.</p><p> </p><p /> <p /><p /> <p /><p /> <p /><p /> <p /> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 14/07/2014 15:19:51 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

58024

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the incidence of traffic jams.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>This Government is investing £24 billion on strategic roads in England across this Parliament and the next six years. This includes £317 million, before April 2015, on Highways Agency pinch point schemes tackling congestion and supporting economic growth. We are also providing, before April 2015, £265 million from the Local Pinch Point Fund for 112 projects across England aimed at relieving congestion and supporting economic growth.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In England, subject to approval, ‘Permit Schemes' are available to local authorities in England so that anyone wanting to dig up the road must first apply for a permit to work. This provision gives authorities the power to better challenge how long those works take, to impose conditions, and to co-ordinate works. They can also charge ‘over-run' charges to utility companies. The Department is also currently trialling Lane Rental in two highway authority areas, which enables them to charge for works taking place on the busiest roads at the busiest times.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Outside of England, measures to reduce the incidence of traffic jams are a matter for the respective devolved administration.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/06/2014 11:11:52 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon