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Whitty, Lord

Statement on what plans they have to implement the Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997. [HL 3496].

Asked by

Viscount Simon (Labour)

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Written questions

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Answered

Date

21 October 1998

Reference

HL 3496; 593 c157-8WA

House

House of Lords

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Statement on what plans he has to implement the Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997.

Asked by

Linda Gilroy (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

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Answered

Tabled on

19 October 1998

For answer on

20 October 1998

Answered on

20 October 1998

Mrs. Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans he has to implement the Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997; and if he will make a statement. [55928] Dr. Reid: It is clear that the setting of road traffic reduction targets will be an integral part of the process of drawing up local transport strategies. Local transport plans are a centrepiece of the Government's transport proposals and it is vital that we get implementation right. We have listened to the Local Government Association and local authority concerns about the difficulty of producing robust local transport plans by July 1999. We will therefore invite local highway authorities to produce `provisional' 5-year plans by July 1999, covering the period 2000/01-2004/05. These would be the basis for allocating resources for 2000/01 only. Authorities would then roll their plans on by one year and submit `full' plans for 2001/02-2005/06 in July 2000, when resources would be allocated across the plan period. Statutory reports produced under the provisions of the Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997 will therefore be submitted in July 2000, as part of the first round of full local transport plans. We will expect authorities to submit non-statutory `interim' road traffic reduction reports in July 1999, as part of the provisional plans. The London Boroughs are not covered by the White Paper requirement to produce local transport plans, but will be separately required to produce local implementation plans which are in keeping with the Mayor's integrated transport strategy for London. We are taking this forward separately. The Road Traffic Reduction (National Targets) Act 1998 requires the Government to consider the setting of national targets. We will therefore require a greater degree of standardisation from local authorities in the measurement of existing traffic levels and forecasts--in order that we can assess the national implications. We believe this can be done by building on the data already collected for national surveys. It will take some time to get an assessment framework in place. This is something we would like to take forward jointly with local authorities under the auspices of the Transport Statistics Liaison Group. The existing draft guidance on the Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997 will be revised in the light of this work. The Government have also undertaken that they will produce a first report to Parliament on the issue of national traffic targets by the end of 1999 (which will also need to reflect the views of the Commission for Integrated Transport, when appointed). To achieve this, they will need to draw on existing sources of information together with any useful inputs from local authorities from their 1999 plans, accepting that at this stage the material will not be in a standardised format.

Legislation

Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997; Road Traffic Reduction (National Targets) Act 1998

Date

20 October 1998

Reference

317 c1101W;317 c1100-1W; 55928

House

House of Commons

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