HC Deb 16 July 1998 vol 316 cc242-3W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will express the total revenue raised by the Treasury from road-user taxation, including vehicle excise duty, fuel tax and new vehicle tax as a proportion of the total amount spent on maintaining the road network in the most recent year for which figures are available. [50885]

Dr. Strang

In 1996–97 £2.28 billion was spent on maintaining both the trunk and local authority road networks. In the same financial year £21.1 billion (some 925%) was raised in road-user taxation.