Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of tourist vehicles that have approached the Port of Dover via the A2 in each year since 2010 per (a) day on average and (b) year.

The Department produces annual estimates of the average daily flow by vehicle type for each major road link in Great Britain. Traffic counts do not establish trip purpose.

The table below provides a breakdown of the (a) average daily flow by (b) year since 2010 for all vehicles split by type. The data is provided for the closest major road link on the A2 approaching the Port of Dover (Count Point No. 27864).

Average Daily Flow Estimates of All Motor Vehicles by type at Count Point 27864 on the southbound A2 – 2010 to 2017¹

¹ DfT’s road link level traffic estimates are calculated using a variety of methods, with some methods likely to produce more accurate estimates than others.

Further detailed information on vehicle flows, including the local road network, can be accessed via the Department’s interactive map here:

https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/manualcountpoints

Contextual information can be found on the data.gov.uk website here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/road-traffic-statistics