HC Deb 07 December 1971 vol 827 c290W
Mr. Redmond

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a breakdown by trunk roads, principal roads and other roads of the expenditure figures for each of the years 1971–72 to 1975–76 on new construction and improvement and on maintenance, respectively, contained in the White Paper on Public Expenditure 1970–71 to 1975–76, Command Paper No. 4329.

Mr. Michael Heseltine

The breakdown is expected to be broadly as follows:

1971–72 1972–73 1973–74
£m £m £m
New Construction and Improvements
Trunk Roads (including Motorways) 248.3 275.8 318.7
Principal Roads 188.6 210.3 227.6
Major Roads 436.9 486.1 546.7
Maintenance
Trunk Roads (including Motorways) 29.0 34.8 32.6
Principal Roads 50.2 54.4 56.0
Major Roads 79.2 89.2 88.6

These figures for "Other Roads" are shown separately in Table 2.9.

Beyond 1973–74 the allocations have not been fully worked out. Local authority expenditure in particular is imprecise for the reasons given in paragraph 24 of Cmnd. 4829.