§ 34. Mr. Haymanasked the Minister of Transport what additions have been made recently to the major roads programme of the Cornwall highways authority for the current financial year.
§ Mr. HayMy right hon. Friend has recently added 34 schemes costing £164,000 to the Cornwall County Council's major road programme for the current year. This will bring the total programme to about £700,000.
§ Mr. HaymanI thank the Minister for that reply, but will he look at the Written Reply which he gave me on 27th July last in which, I suggest, the figures were misleading in that the requests from the county highway authority for schemes had already been scaled down towards what the Minister would be likely to sanction? Further, will he see that immediate provision is made for traffic lights in the centre of Redruth and in the centre of Pool on one of the busiest roads in the country?
§ Mr. HayI will consider the request which the hon. Gentleman makes in the last part of his supplementary. As regards the first part of his supplementary, I do not think that the Answer I gave on 27th July is altogether misleading. As it made clear, the county council had asked us for 68 schemes totalling £780,000 in the current year. We are now giving the council 61 schemes out of the 68 and are spending £700,000 out of the £780,000, so it is not doing too badly.