§ Richard Younger-RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his latest estimates are of the level of road traffic congestion, as measured by(a) seconds per vehicle kilometre and (b) average peak-time speeds on inter-urban routes. [186165]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe White Paper The Future of Transport' which was presented to the House on Tuesday 20 July by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State explains that we are developing new measures of traffic congestion. Estimates of average peak-time traffic speeds on weekdays were published in April of this year in Traffic Speeds on English Trunk Roads: 2003' available on the Department's website.