A table providing the length of public road within each local authority in England in 2011, broken down by road type has been deposited in the Libraries of the House.

The road type categories used in the table are as follows:

Strategic Road Network—motorways

Strategic Road Network—'A' roads

Local Highway Authority motorways

Local Highway Authority 'A' roads

Local Highway Authority 'B' roads

Local Highway Authority 'C’ roads

Local Highway Authority 'U’ roads

A second table has been deposited, which provides the proportions of road length within each local authority in each of these categories.

The following table shows spend on maintenance and capital spending for the national strategic road network and other public highways for the last 10 years for which figures are available.

The Department collects and publishes information on reported personal injury road accidents on calendar year bases. The information requested is given in the following table for the 2010 and 2011 calendar years:

Statistics for calendar year 2012 will be published in June 2013.

Road safety is a top priority and it remains a fact that Great Britain's roads are some of the safest in the world.

Any road death or injury is a tragedy and I will continue to take urgent action to crack down on the most dangerous drivers and improve road safety.

The Department only collects information relating to personal injury accidents, and therefore does not include in its statistics damage-only accidents.

In each of the last three years, the total number of reported personal injury accidents occurring in Suffolk on each day of the week, were as follows:

No assessment has been made. Roads and pavements on the non-strategic highway network in England are managed by, and are the responsibility of, local highway authorities. It is for individual authorities to assess maintenance needs and prioritise accordingly.

The Department for Transport does, however, recognise the importance of the local highway network and is providing over £3 billion to local highway authorities from 2011 to 2015 for highways maintenance. We also provided a further £200 million in March 2011 for them to repair potholes on the local road network damaged by the severe winter weather at the end of 2010.

As announced in the December 2012 Autumn Statement, the Department for Transport will be providing an additional £333 million capital funding over the next two financial years to 2015 for essential highways maintenance on both the strategic and local highway network. Details of allocations to local highway authorities have been announced today.

The funding provided by the Department for Transport provides local highway authorities with the flexibility to use their local knowledge and experience to decide how to prioritise expenditure.

Based on the data within the Department for Communities and Local Government National Statistics release “Local Authority Revenue Expenditure and Financing England 2011-12 Final Outturn” published on 27 November 2012, the total gross expenditure for winter service, including salting roads, by local authorities in England was £175 million. Information for 2012/13 is not yet available.

The overall cost of winter maintenance activity, including salting roads, by the Highways Agency who are responsible for the strategic road network, is estimated to be around £20 million for winter 2012-13.

I refer to my previous answer to him on 28 November 2012, Official Report, column 5340W, in which I explained that I had written to all hon. Members on 23 November 2012 setting out the steps that the Department for Transport and the wider transport sector have taken in advance of any possible severe winter weather. This letter that has been placed in both Libraries of the House highlights the steps we have taken with respect to road salt for this winter period.

In a survey conducted by the Department at end November 2012, total salt stocks for England, including strategic salt stockpiles, is approximately 1.8 million tonnes of salt. This highlights that highway authorities are continuing to hold robust salt stocks.

Based on the data within the Department for Communities and Local Government National Statistics release “Local Authority Revenue Expenditure and Financing England 2011-12 Final Outturn” published on 27 November 2012, the total gross expenditure for winter service, including salting roads, by local authorities in England was £175 million. Information for 2012/13 is not yet available.

The overall cost of winter maintenance activity, including salting roads, by the Highways Agency who are responsible for the strategic road network, is estimated to be around £20 million for winter 2012-13.

I refer to my previous answer to him on 28 November 2012, Official Report, column 5340W, in which I explained that I had written to all hon. Members on 23 November 2012 setting out the steps that the Department for Transport and the wider transport sector have taken in advance of any possible severe winter weather. This letter that has been placed in both Libraries of the House highlights the steps we have taken with respect to road salt for this winter period.

In a survey conducted by the Department at end November 2012, total salt stocks for England, including strategic salt stockpiles, is approximately 1.8 million tonnes of salt. This highlights that highway authorities are continuing to hold robust salt stocks.

The Department only collects information relating to personal injury accidents, and therefore does not include in its statistics damage-only accidents, or cases where a police officer attended an accident but did not report it.

In each of the last three years, the number of reported personal injury accidents and the number of those accidents involving a fatality, where a police officer attended the scene and obtained report details, in (a) the Suffolk police force area, and (b) England, were as follows:

In-year totals for 2012 have only been published at Great Britain level. The latest published figures cover the period to June 2012 and are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/ras45-quarterly-statistics

Figures for geographic areas within Great Britain for the year 2012 are due for publication in June 2013.

The Department does not make separate allocations for road safety improvements but such improvements can be funded via the Integrated Transport Block capital allocation. Over the last three years, the capital allocation for these specific authorities is as follows:

In addition, authorities are able to use revenue funding from the Department for Communities and Local Government's formula grant for road safety measures.

The funding provided by the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement will increase investment in England’s motorways and major A roads supporting the economy and keep the country moving.

The Statement included funding of £1 billion to enable four new major road projects to start construction in this spending review period. These schemes (A5-M1 link, A1 Lobley Hill, A1 Leeming to Barton and A30 Temple Higher Carblake) will collectively add an additional 38 lane miles (61 lane kilometres) to the strategic road network by 2017-18.

A detailed table showing each scheme is below.

rounded to one decimal place

The Department for Transport has not made an assessment of the employment implications of the roads package announced by the Chancellor in his 2012 Autumn Statement. It is currently estimated that the four additional improvement schemes announced will generate over £5-worth of benefits for every pound spent on implementing them.

There are, however, some indications of the potential wider impacts of some of the specific major schemes announced. For example, the A5-M1 link road at Dunstable is projected to unlock the development of 7,000 houses and 40 hectares of employment land—potentially providing 4,000 jobs—at Houghton Regis.

The information requested is not held by the Department. This is because the Department does not collect information on whether drivers were insured or not as part of the accident data set.