To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was spent by his Department on developing policy on national road pricing in each of the last 10 years. (141864)

The Department does not have data in this form. Work to explore the potential of road pricing to address traffic congestion, most notably the 2003-04 Road Pricing Feasibility Study, was undertaken within overall departmental headcount and budgets.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much the road pricing demonstrations project is estimated to cost. (141865)

The demonstration into Time-Distance-Place charging announced by the Secretary of State on 23 May is presently in the procurement stage, therefore it is not possible to state how much the project will cost until we have received proposals from bidders and evaluated them.