§ Mr. Quentin Davies (Stamford and Spalding)I beg to present a petition signed by 6,000 inhabitants of the villages of Market Deeping and Deeping St. James in my constituency, which begs for the rapid construction of the Deeping bypass, which I have had occasion to mention in the House before. We have been waiting for the bypass since 1939, when the idea was mooted. It was in the 1989 Government road programme, but was removed from that programme in 1993 because of public expenditure cuts. We very much hope that it will be constructed in the new future, because it is vital not merely for the economy and the amenity of my constituents but also for their safety. Over the past two months there have been three serious accidents, with one fatality, in an area that would be bypassed if the bypass were constructed.
§ I hope that the voices of those 6,000 of my constituents, who represent more than three quarters of the adult population of the two villages concerned, will be heard in the right quarter in the way that they deserve.
§ To lie upon the Table.