Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the implementation of the Government's road building schemes on annual levels of carbon emissions.

The Government always considers the climate impact of its actions, which is why the UK has been so successful in reducing our carbon emissions to date. In the case of road building, that involves looking at embedded carbon, where DfT projects have pioneered reducing the carbon associated with construction, and carbon from vehicles operating on a new road.