HC Deb 15 November 1979 vol 973 cc777-8W
Mr. Fry

asked the Minister of Transport of he will list in the Official Report

Scheme Pre-tender estimate £ million Accepted tender £ million
A1 Felton By-Pass, Stage 2A … … 1.6 1.7
A2 Canterbury By-Pass … … 9.4 8.9
A6 Silsoe By-Pass … … 1.4 1.4
A13 Mar Dyke-East of Grays … … 16.7 18.4
A19 Billingham Diversion—Earthworks … … 3.9 1.9
A27 Portsbridge-Broadmarsh Improvement … … 2.3 2.0
A30 Billet Bridge-Avondale Road … … 0.6 0.6
A34 Whitchurch-Litchfleld Improvement … … 2.0 2.1
A45 Ipswich By-Pass (Orwell Bridge) … … 23.6 23.6
A47 Swaffham By-Pass … … 3.1 3.4
A56 Haslingden By-Pass … … 10.4 10.8
A65 Skipton By-Passes … … 10.5 10.2
A66 Stockton-Thornaby … … 12.3 10.4
A66 Appleby By-Pass … … 6.5 6.6
A590 Meathop-Sampool Bridge … … 7.4 6.0
A604 Bar Hill.Godmanchester … … 8.3 8.1
A1079 Beverley By-Pass … … 7.8 8.0
M25 Chertsey-Wisley: New Haw Viaduct … … 3.5 3.7
M25 A111-A10 … … 17.1 15.8
M25 Egham-Yeoveney … … 8.9 6.4
M63 Stockport East/West By-Pass, Stage 2 … … 7.7 6.1
M25 A13-A12, Stage 2 … … 8.1 7.2
Note: The pre-tender estimates listed above correspond in coverage to the tender; they exclude contingency allowances, land, and ancillary items included in estimates of total cost. The contracts covered are those for schemes in the national trunk road programme costing more than £0.5 million.

Mr. Fry

asked the Minister of Transport what are the factors used to revalue 1978 survey prices to 1979 survey prices for trunk road construction, trunk road maintenance, local road construction and local road maintenance for each of the years of the period of the forthcoming public expenditure survey.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

The following factors have been used to revalue these programmes:

1978 survey prices to 1979 survey prices
Motorway and trunk road construction:
Roads output price index 1.092
Land cost index 1.296
Local Road Construction:
Tender price index 1.165
Cost outturn index 1.089
Land cost index 1.296
Motorway and trunk road maintenance 1.089
Local Road Maintenance 1.112

Because the mix of expenditure between land, work in progress and new works, varies from year to year, the overall effect of the revaluation can differ as between one year and another even though the same underlying factors have been used.

his Department's pre-tender estimates of the prices for each trunk road contract let so far in 1979, together with the actual price of the accepted tender.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

The information required is as follows:

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