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Transport written question – answered at on 7 July 2014.

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Photo of Stephen O'Brien Stephen O'Brien Conservative, Eddisbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what explicit monetary value his Department assigns to the value of preventing a fatality calculation during the process of policy appraisal and evaluation.

Photo of Robert Goodwill Robert Goodwill Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The value of a prevented fatality used in transport analysis is £1,632,892 (in 2010 prices and at 2010 incomes). The value is given in Table A4.1.1 of the WebTAG (web-based transport analysis guidance) data book:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/webtag-tag-data-book-may-2014

Guidance on using it, and related values, is given in TAG Unit A4.1 Social Impact Appraisal:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/webtag-tag-unit-a4-1-social-impact-appraisal

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