Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 20 April 2017 to Question 70176, what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the road casualty figures for 2016; and what steps he is taking to ensure the timely publication of future datasets.

I refer the Honourable Member to the response to ordinary written question 3841, answered on 18 July 2017: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-07-10/3841

The annual main results are being incorporated into the Reported Road Casualties Great Britain 2016 annual report, pre-announced to be published on 28 September 2017.