Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 64334

Roads: Noise

Tabled: 1 July 2025
Answered: 4 July 2025
Named Day

Question

Freddie van Mierlo

Liberal DemocratHenley and Thame

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

Lilian Greenwood
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...

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