§ 21. Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many projects are planned, and how much it is proposed to spend, in making improvements to the A57 in the Rother Valley constituency during the next three years.
§ Mr. Graham PageThree, totalling some £33,000.
§ Mr. HardyI thank the Minister for that information, inadequate though it may be, and for the modest improvement which he recently promised to have carried out at the Todwick cross roads on that road. Will he take a much more urgent look at the situation in the growing parish of Aston, where the conditions, as a result of the heavy traffic on the A57, are most unsatisfactory? It seems to me and many others in the area that something will have to be done to provide a bypass at an early date.
§ Mr. PageYes. I am very conscious of the difficulties of Aston. It is Government policy to favour bypasses when other factors are equal, and we are looking very seriously at this problem there. This is, of course, all mixed up with the question of the Mosborough expressway and with a comprehensive development area. The whole matter is rather complex.