Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the average length of time taken by local authorities to adopt roads serving new housing developments.

The time taken for local authorities to adopt roads on new housing developments varies significantly across the country, as each authority follows its own processes and timelines. The Government recognises that road adoption rates for new developments have been declining in recent years. To address this, we are undertaking research to better understand the causes of this trend and to identify how the adoption process can be improved going forward.