Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish data on the use of motorcycles during the covid-19 outbreak in line with the data published by his Department entitled Transport use by mode: Great Britain, since 1 March 2020.

Road traffic data on the use of motorcycles during the COVID-19 pandemic is not available.

Road traffic data published as part of ‘Transport use by mode: Great Britain, since 1 March 2020’ is based on approximately 275 automatic traffic counter sites, as used for the Quarterly Road Traffic National Statistics publication series.

As with the Quarterly series (where motorcycle traffic estimates are not published), the pattern and relative infrequency of motorcycle travel means that robust estimates of change in use of this mode during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are unavailable.