§ 60. Mr. SALTasked the Minister of Transport whether the proposal to take full responsibility for the maintenance and improvement of some 4,500 miles of trunk roads will include powers to provide for their lighting in accordance with the best modern practice?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAI would ask my hon. Friend to await the presentation of the Bill.
§ Mr. LYONSCan the right hon. Gentleman indicate the approximate time when the final report of the Departmental Committee on Road Lighting will be ready?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThat does not arise out of this question, but I should he most happy to give the date if I knew it.
§ 61. Mr. DINGLE FOOTasked the Minister of Transport why the trunk road between Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, A92, is not included in the routes for which the Ministry of Transport propose to assume full responsibility; and whether, in view of the importance of this route, he will consider the advisability of including it in the scheme?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThe Edinburgh-Perth-Inverness road and the Perth-Dundee-Arbroath-Aberdeen coastal road are included in the scheme.
§ Mr. MATHERSIs it the intention of the right hon. Gentleman to link up that road with bridges over the Forth and the Tay under his own responsibility?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThat will arise at some later date.
§ Mr. FOOTWill the right hon. Gentleman say whether the list of roads to be included in the scheme is finally closed, or whether he will receive representations for including any other road?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAI am not prepared to receive representations, and if I did receive them I am not prepared to consider them. The statement that I made covers all the trunk roads in the country.