§ Mr. HunterTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish statistics indicating the increase of traffic in Hampshire (i) in the county as a whole and (ii) in the local authority districts of the county for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Peter Bottomley[holding answer 9 March 1989]: The Department carries out surveys designed to measure traffic growth only at the national level. For counties, estimates of traffic levels are made annually for major roads (class A and motorways). These levels estimates are subject to wide margins of error and do not provide a reliable basis for measuring year-to-year changes.
For 1987 the level of traffic on major roads in Hampshire is estimated at 7.2 billion vehicle kilometres. No estimates are made of traffic levels for the local authority districts within a county.