HC Deb 11 March 2003 vol 401 c119W
Norman Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the estimates that he has made of the external costs associated with private motoring, with particular reference to the environmental costs. [102477]

Mr. Jamieson

A study commissioned by my Department from the Institute for Transport Studies* at the University of Leeds made the following estimates of the marginal external social costs of car use per vehicle kilometre in Great Britain:

  1. (a) Congestion costs: 9.0 to 10.4 pence/km
  2. (b) Accident costs : 0.79 to 1.38 pence/km
  3. (c) Air pollution costs: 0.18 to 0.88 pence/km
  4. (d) Noise pollution costs: 0.01 to 0.52 pence/km
  5. (e) Climate change costs: 0.12 to 0.47 pence/km

* 'Surface Transport Costs and Charges', Great Britain 1998, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, July 2001, page 49.