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Roads: Highways England

Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 27 March 2025UIN 40202

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of road Highways England manages in each county of England.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

National Highways is responsible for managing England’s strategic road network, which is made up of over 4,500 miles of centrally managed motorway and main A-roads. The latest available data on road length of centrally managed motorways and A-roads broken down by local authority can be found on GOV.UK (Table RDL0102): https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/road-length-statistics-rdl.

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