HC Deb 04 May 1960 vol 622 cc1077-8
45. Mr. Holt

asked the Minister of Transport when he plans to complete that part of the north-south motorway through Lancashire which will link the Preston and Lancaster by-passes.

The Minister of Transport (Mr. Ernest Marples)

The objections to the draft scheme for this length of motorway are being considered. After I have made the scheme the other statutory processes and the acquisition of land inevitably take many months. Construction will be put in hand as soon as this preparatory work has been completed and the necessary funds are available. I cannot yet forecast a date for this.

Mr. Holt

Can the Minister give any date for the next statutory publication he is to make? Does he not agree that conditions in this area are now very bad? Can he give an assurance that there will be no unavoidable delay in the necessary process through which he has to go?

Mr. Marples

Yes, I can give that assurance. But Parliament has laid down the length of procedure which I am bound to obey.

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