Question follow-through · 97316
Road Traffic
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of traffic congestion on the economy.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of traffic congestion on the economy.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department for Transport publishes transport analysis guidance to help assess the economic cost of congestion associated with different policy interventions. It also regularly publishes statistics on speeds, delay and reliability on different types of...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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