Road Traffic: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what change in congestion levels was recorded by each of the urban areas to receive the Urban Congestion Performance Fund payment announced on 23 February 2009. (261628)

The following table contains the percentage change in average person journey time per mile in each urban area from the baseline (a combination of 2004-05 and 2005-06 data) and 2007-08:

Urban area	Percentage change
London	-5.1
Greater Manchester	-1.6
Merseyside	-2.2
South Yorkshire	-5.2
Tyne and Wear	-5.7
West Midlands	0.0
West Yorkshire	1.4
Bristol	-5.4
Leicester	-0.1
Nottingham	0.0
10 urban areas	-3.0

The full table is available in “Road Traffic and Congestion in Great Britain; Quarter 4 2008”, available at:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pqr/statistics/datatablespublications/roadstraffic/traffic/qbtrafficgb/2008/q408

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009