§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions for what reason unnamed back lanes are excluded from560W highways data for the purposes of calculating standard spending assessments; and when this exclusion was introduced.[20103]
§ Dr. WhiteheadBack lanes, unnamed or otherwise, should have always been excluded from the data used in SSAs. The same is true of other public ways such as Byways Open to All Traffic, bridleways, footpaths, green lanes and unsurfaced roads. This is on the basis that this group of rights of way take very little or no traffic relative to major and minor roads.
Some authorities have, in the past, erroneously, included some of these rights of way in their highway returns to the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.