§ Mrs. BrintonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will instruct the Government regional offices to hold seminars to assist the dissemination of best practice among local authorities in the production of countryside traffic strategies. [91799]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonGovernment Offices have been working closely with Local Authorities in the preparation of local transport plans (LTPs). Provisional LTPs are to be submitted later this month and we are currently considering the most effective way of disseminating the "best practice" which emerges.
The Countryside Commission, now the Countryside Agency, published, in 1997, an advisory booklet entitled "Rural Traffic: Getting it Right" which provides general advice on developing traffic strategies for rural areas. Further advice on good practice will be issued once the results of the studies carried out by the Countryside Agency's Countryside Traffic Measures Group are available. Officials from my Department are participating in these studies.