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Despite Lord Adonis, the Transport Secretary, ruling out the introduction of national road pricing for the next Parliament, civil servants are still involved with the project, it has emerged. In response to a Freedom of Information request, the Treasury has admitted that its officials have been working on the scheme in the last six months. The Treasury also said it had been involved in work on the EU’s Galileo project – a satellite which could be used for “spy in the sky” tracking of motorists’ movements. Even though the Government has shelved the project, the Department for Transport previously admitted that it was continuing with testing the technology which would be necessary was to become a reality. It has allocated £7.2 million for the work. According to Theresa Villiers, the Tory transport spokesman, this showed that Labour had not abandoned plans to bring in national road pricing, which could see motorists paying as much as £1.30 a mile to drive on the busiest roads during the rush hour. More