22. To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when she expects to report on the study her Department commissioned on longer and heavier vehicles in 2005. (180556)

The study was actually commissioned in October 2006 and the full report should be published by the end of February. At present, we do not intend to publish a response, but following speculation in the media about the Government allowing trials of “super” lorries, the Secretary of State has previously made clear that we are sceptical of these vehicles and have no plans to permit them in the UK.