§ Mr. SalterTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what targets he has set for the Highways Agency for 2000–01. [117392]
§ Mr. HillThe key targets set for the Highways Agency are included in the Agency's business plan for 2000–01, which is being placed in the Library.
The key targets are to:
in order to deliver best value for money, maintain the network so that the proportion of the network requiring maintenance within the next year is held between 7 and 8 per cent;achieve a saving of 250,000 estimated vehicle hours from the network communications and economy local network management schemes completed in the year;to demonstrate progress towards achieving the 2010 targets for motorways and trunk roads set out in "Making the Network Safer: the Highways Agency's Strategic Plan for Safety" published on 1 March:reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on trunk roads in 2000 to 5,056 (compared with the 1994–98 average of 5,589);reduce the slight casualty rate in 2000 to 21.13 slight casualties per million vehicle km (compared with the 1994–98 average of 21.76);in each case to allow for expected year-to-year fluctuations in casualty levels, the Agency will be deemed to have met the target if the result is no more than 5 per cent. above the milestone target figure;achieve an average target of 85 per cent. across the four environment programme sub-indicators;achieve by the end of the year no less than 90 per cent. of the 24 targeted programme of improvement scheme milestones listed in Chapter 3.4 of the business plan.