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Expenditure on roads £9 billion (all contributors local and national)
Taxes/duties etc raised on drivers/road transport £41 billion.
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45. The direct cost of providing and maintaining roads is not the total cost of road use. There are also costs imposed on those outside the system, referred to by economists as 'externalities' (see Box 2). As the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Paul Clark MP, pointed out:
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We are comparing the spending on roads directly but of course there is the spending that goes into the accidents, the policing, the congestion, the air quality controls and so on that also are a cost from roads.
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46. The Department for Transport estimates that the average marginal external cost of driving a car an additional kilometre is 15.5p. [...] The external cost compares with 3.6p/km paid by motorists in fuel duty and VAT.
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