Road Traffic

(asked on 15th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on trends in the average number of vehicles on the roads from 2000 onwards.


Answered by
Justin Madders Portrait
Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 12th October 2026

Information on the volume of traffic on roads across Great Britain is collected and published by the Department here https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/road-traffic-statistics.

The data held by the Department for 2000 to 2025 showed that 342.6 billion vehicle miles were travelled on Great Britain’s roads in 2025, compared to 289.6 billion miles in 2000.

Year

All Motor Vehicles
(Billion vehicle miles)

2000

289.6

2001

293.5

2002

300.2

2003

302.0

2004

305.7

2005

305.8

2006

310.4

2007

313.3

2008

310.5

2009

307.3

2010

303.2

2011

304.3

2012

304.6

2013

305.8

2014

314.5

2015

320.4

2016

327.9

2017

332.5

2018

334.2

2019

338.6

2020

265.9

2021

297.6

2022

323.7

2023

330.8

2024

336.2

2025

342.6

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