Written question asked by Baroness May of Maidenhead (Conservative) on Wednesday, 8 May 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 21 May 2002. It was answered by Stephen Byers (Labour) on Tuesday, 21 May 2002 on behalf of the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.

Dept for Transport Local Government and the Regions

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his Answer of 30th April, Official Report, 384 c675W, on infrastructure charging research, if he will publish figures for the cost of research commissioned by his Department, or the DETR, in each year since 1997; if he will publish the estimated cost for the forthcoming year; and if he will publish a summary of the work so far on (a) user acceptance, (b) social-spatial inclusion and exclusion, (c) trade-off between practical and optimal cordon congestion charging and (d) economic geography of congestion charging; pursuant to his Answer of 30th April, Official Report, column 675W, on infrastructure charging research, when the commissioned work will terminate; and what the estimated cost of such research is up to the termination date; if he will make a statement on the assessment he has made of the effect of congestion charging on social-spatial inclusion and exclusion. - Includes table.

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