Roads: Noise
Commons · Question 64334 · Tabled 1 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the levels of noise pollution on roads (a) in Oxfordshire and (b) nationally.
Answer
Answered by Lilian Greenwood, 4 Jul 2025
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is responsible for creating noise maps as part of implementing the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006. The Department for Transport has not therefore made its own estimates. DEFRA’s...