In the four years since work began on following up the Feasibility Study of Road Pricing in the UK, the Department has spent £9.3 million on technical and professional advice to inform the way that pricing could be used to tackle road congestion; for example in the local charging schemes that are being developed by local authorities.Our priority, now and over the next decade, is to tackle congestion, focusing on where it is a problem—in towns and cities and on motorways. The Command Paper 'Roads—Delivering Choice and Reliability', published on 16 July, sets out how we intend to do this.Our plans for testing technology are set out in the same document. We expect that the Demonstrations Project we are about to commission will lead the way to developing better systems that could support urban schemes, possibly over a wider area than have been developed to date, as well as informing our thinking on managing motorway capacity.