Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their annual report Reported road casualties Great Britain, published on 29 September, what assessment they have made of the increase in the number of recorded road casualties in 2021 when compared to 2020 figures; and what steps, if any, they plan to take in response.

There were an estimated 128,209 reported road casualties of all severities in Great Britain in 2021. This was an increase of 11 per cent compared to 2020, but 16 per cent lower than in 2019.

Recent trends in road casualties have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, they showed signs of a return to pre-pandemic levels, increasing compared to 2020 when casualty numbers were low, largely as a result of periods of lockdown resulting in a reduction in road traffic.