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Roads: Statistics

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 17 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what road (a) safety, (b) user and (c) congestion datasets held by his Department supply data, broken down by (i) constituency, (ii) local authority, (iii) county and (iv) region. (262456)

The information requested is given in the following table:

Dataset available at

(i) Constituency

(ii) Local authority

(iii) County

(iv) Government office region

(v) Data scope

Road accidents (Stats 19)1

Yes

Yes2

Yes

Yes

GB

Congestion—Inter-urban

No

No

No

Yes3

England

Congestion—Urban

No

Partial4

No

No

England

Traffic

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

GB

Road lengths

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

GB

National Travel Survey

No

No5

No5

Yes

GB

Road freight6

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

UK

Registered vehicles

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

GB

Bus and light rail passengers

No

No

No

Yes

GB

Concessionary fares schemes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

England and Wales

Bus Passenger Satisfaction Survey

No

No

No

Yes

England

Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

England and Wales

Blue Badges Survey

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

England

Decriminalised Parking Survey

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

England and Wales

Vehicle Excise Duty Evasion

No

No

No

Yes

UK

1 With the exception of contributory factor data and drink and drive data, which are only available at Government office region level.

2 Local highway authority.

3 Data are available by road section and some road sections may cover more than one Government office region.

4 Currently, urban congestion data are published for the 10 largest urban areas in England, which are combinations of local authority areas.

5 Some limited results can be supplied at this level for some local authorities and counties, where sample sizes are sufficient to produce robust estimates.

6 Vehicles over 3.5 tonnes gross weight