To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent estimate he has made of the number of heavy goods vehicles from overseas using roads in England and Wales. (86120)

Estimates of the number of foreign registered heavy goods vehicles on roads in Britain are not available. However, estimated numbers leaving the UK are published in table 1 of the quarterly bulletin, “Road Goods Vehicles Travelling to Mainland Europe”. A copy of this bulletin is available on the DFT website at:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_transstats/documents/page/dft_transstats_611744.hcsp