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date	23/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	A417
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the feasibility studies for the A417 missing link.
tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
tabling member printed	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
uin	109019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>Highways England is developing its proposals that consider both the environmental sensitivity of the site and the importance of the route. An options consultation is to take place in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/10/2017 16:28:01 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

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date	23/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of congestion on roads in (a) Bolton and (b) Wigan.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	109104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment of the trends in the level of congestion on all roads in (a) Bolton and (b) Wigan.</p><p> </p><p>Information is held on average delay on locally managed ‘A’ roads and the most recent data provided by the Department is as follows.</p><p> </p><p>CGN0502b: Average delay on locally managed ‘A’ roads by local authority</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Average delay (seconds per vehicle per mile)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% change</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>58.5</p></td><td><p>57.6</p></td><td><p>-1.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wigan</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>58.5</p></td><td><p>58.5</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>44.6</p></td><td><p>45.9</p></td><td><p>+2.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Average delay is commonly used as a measure of relative congestion. A decrease in average delay indicates a reduction in the level of congestion.</p><p>These statistics are the most up to date figures published by the Department and come from the table CGN0502b, which is published annually in February. The full table can be accessed using the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/average-speed-and-delay-on-local-a-roads-cgn05%23table-cgn0502" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/average-speed-and-delay-on-local-a-roads-cgn05#table-cgn0502</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not produce statistics for congestion at the local authority level for the Strategic Road Network or for minor roads.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England keeps the trunk road and motorway network in England under constant review, but has made no recent specific assessment of trends in the level of congestion through Bolton and Wigan.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/10/2017 16:32:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green