§ Mr. Ronald Atkinsasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what are his latest estimates of the costs of road accidents and of road congestion to the nation.
§ Dr. GilbertThe costs of road accidents in 1975 are provisionally estimated to be at least £850 million. The costs of road congestion over the entire network were last estimated for 1966 in "Road Track Costs", a report by the Ministry of Transport published in 1968, and these estimates are now out of date. Reductions in delay costs are, however, taken into account in the assessment and justification of individual road improvements.