§ Mr. Muddasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list in the Official Report, in the same format as the Supply Estimates 1981–82, all trunk road schemes with a cost between £1 million and £10 million which are due to start after 31 October 1980 and which will fall on his Department's Vote.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe information requested is shown below. The total provision for schemes costing between £1 million and £10 million also covers expenditure on motorway communications, service areas and some other miscellaneous items and is partly offset by the allowance at the end of table 2 of the appendix for work which may not in practice be carried out in the year. The estimates for individual schemes are those current at the time and cover their total cost including land and a contingency allowance.
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New Construction and Improvements: Trunk Roads—1981–82 Details of schemes costing between £1 million and £10 million Estimated Requirements for 1981–82 (1) Year of authorisation to year of completion (estimated) (2) Current estimate of total cost (3) Probable expenditure to 31 March 1981 (4) At 1981 Survey Prices (5) (at outturn prices) (6) £000 £000 £000 £000 Schemes with a total cost between £1 million and £10 million (contracts let after 31 October 1980) London-Edinburgh-Thurso Road Belford Bypass (Northumberland) (5–6Km) 1981–83 2,386 39 718 783 Berwick Bypass (Northumberland) (9–5Km) 1981–83 6,858 67 2,413 2,630 London-Norwich Road Attleborough Bypass (Norfolk) (8–9Km) 1982–84 6,266 — 43 47 London-Great Yarmouth Road Gallows Corner (Greater London) (3–2Km) 1981–84 3,442 12 200 218 Kings Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Road Heckington Bypass (Lincolnshire) (8–4Km) 1981–83 4,780 130 1,646 1,794 West of Kings Lynn to County Boundary (Norfolk) (10–9Km) 1980–83 7,503 143 3,154 3,438 London-Penzance Road Popham-Bullington (Hampshire) (6–9Km) 1981–83 4,791 20 1,057 1,152 Folkestone-Honiton Road Bere Regis Bypass (Dorset) (2–1Km) 1980–82 2,285 152 1,393 1,518 Winchester-Preston Road Newbury-Litchfield (Whitway Diversion) (Hants) (5–4Km) 1981–83 3,507 4 658 717 London-Fishguard Road Perivale Lane Grade Seperated Junction (Greater London) (0–8Km) 1981–83 8,678 70 1,088 1,186 Hillingdon West End Road (Greater London) (1–7Km) 1981–83 6,512 42 2,051 2,236 West of Maidenhead-Oxford Road Dorchester on Thames Bypass (Oxon) (3–5Km) 1980–82 3,161 101 1,475 1,608 Birmingham-Great Yarmouth Road Blofield Bypass (Norfolk) (1–6Km) 1981–83 2,580 9 793 864 Swansea-Manchester Road Tarvin South Western Bypass (Cheshire) (2–2Km) 1981–84 1,571 — 11 12 Levens Bridge-Carlisle Road Levens Bridge Diversion (Cumbria) (2–5Km) 1981–84 3,365 7 123 134 Greenodd Diversion (Cumbria) (1–1Km) 1981–83 4,636 19 1,521 1,658 Basingstoke-Newbury Road Kingsclere Bypass (Hampshire) (2–4Km) 1981–82 1,223 5 552 602 Penrith-Middlesborough Road Bowes Bypass (Durham) (6–5Km) 1980–83 5,197 24 2,477 2,700 Troutbeck Diversion (Cumbria) (2–7Km) 1981–83 1,730 10 720 785 Carlisle-Sunderland Road Greenhead Diversion (Northumberland) (2–4Km) 1981–83 1,269 18 248 270 London-Carlisle-Glasgow-lnverness Road Elstow Bypass (Bedfordshire) (2–0Km) 1981–82 2,222 17 916 998
§ Mr. Muddasked the Secretary of State for Transport what is his estimate of the effect on the trunk road construction budget for 1981–82 and future years of an immediate start on those schemes which have completed statutory procedures and are waiting the invitation of tenders.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeNone, as there are at the moment no schemes ready to proceed to the invitation of
270Wtenders which are held up for lack of funds. When the statutory procedures for a scheme have been completed, we still need to acquire the land, produce tender documents and go through the process of inviting tenders and letting contracts. All this takes time. Our trunk road budget for 1981–82 should allow all schemes which are ready for construction to start during the year.