Asked by: Robert Halfon (Conservative - Harlow)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the level of traffic congestion in Harlow constituency in each year since 1997.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Estimates of road congestion levels for Parliamentary constituencies are not held centrally.
We do however hold data at the local authority level. Road congestion is measured in the Department by morning peak speeds, defined as 7am to 10am. In 2013, the average weekday morning peak speed, on locally managed ‘A' roads in Essex (local authority), which contains Harlow constituency, was estimated to be 30.5 miles per hour.The equivalent figure for the whole of England in 2013 was 24.7 miles per hour.
Equivalent figures for earlier years back to 2007, and all other local highway authorities in England, can be found on the Department for Transport's website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279125/cgn0206.xls
Asked by: Robert Halfon (Conservative - Harlow)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the punctuality levels of train services between Harlow Town train station and London Liverpool Street station have been over the last 10 years.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The Department does not hold such information to the level required. We do not routinely measure punctuality (or any other performance measure) by individual line or route; it is the franchise as a whole we measure.