Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many traffic surveys and counts his Department has conducted in Bury St Edmunds constituency since 2010.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has conducted the following numbers of manual traffic counts within the area covered by Bury St Edmunds constituency in each year since 2010.

2010 17 counts

2011 16 counts

2012 16 counts

2013 16 counts

2014 16 counts

2015 13 counts

These counts are carried out for the purpose of producing DfT’s statistics on traffic. They are conducted by observing traffic unobtrusively at designated locations and consequently have no impact on the traffic flows.