To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer to question 98546, how many people were (a) killed and (b) injured by drivers who were using hand-held mobile phones in each year before 2005 for which figures are available. (99864)

2005 is the earliest year for which this information is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what estimate he has made of the net change in UK carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the road schemes approved through the targeted programme of improvements and local transport plans since 1998; (96813)

The CO₂ impacts of road schemes approved through the Targeted Programme of Improvements (TPI) and Local Transport Plans (LTPs) form part of the Department’s normal approval processes for major transport schemes.

The Department’s National Transport Model (NTM) has been used to estimate the CO₂ impact of road improvements at a national level.

The road build included in our national modelling is the Highways Agency’s (HA) illustrative forward programme of schemes. This includes those schemes since 2000 in the TPI, plus an estimate of schemes that may make their way into the TPI going forward.

The modelling carried out for the Future of Transport White Paper included this HA illustrative programme, with it adding around 0.15 million tonnes of carbon in 2010, in England. The carbon added from just the current TPI would, therefore, be somewhat less than this, although that from local transport plans might increase it.

The TPI schemes were also appraised at an individual level. CO₂ emission estimates for the HA’s motorway and trunk road schemes, in the TPI (which was first launched in 1998) are given where data is currently available. A copy of the table showing this information has been placed in the House of Commons Library. Schemes that have not yet entered into the TPI do not have this information as the proposals are still at an early stage.

The overall implications for CO₂ emissions of LTPs, including roads, should be considered as part of their individual Strategic Environmental Assessments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the latest cost estimates are for road schemes (a) in the targeted programme of improvements and (b) approved under (i) the local transport plans and (ii) community infrastructure fund. (96819)

For (a) Highways Agency schemes in the Targeted Programme of Improvements, I refer the hon. Member to the answer of 24 July 2006, Official Report, column 746W, to the hon. Member for Brent, South (Ms Butler).

I have placed information on (b), the latest cost estimates for road schemes approved under (i) the local transport plans and (ii) community infrastructure fund, in the Library of the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much has been spent on building new roads in each year since 1979. (98939)

I refer the hon. member to the written answers given on 17 October 2006, Official Report, columns 1137-38W, and 26 October 2006, Official Report, columns 2000-01W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Clwyd (Chris Ruane).

Those provided data on government and private funding for transport infrastructure in Great Britain. The expenditure for roads within the tables includes new construction, as well as patching works. The available expenditure data do not, however, identify new road construction as a separate category.