§ Mr. Roy Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Transport what is the actual expenditure in 1981–82 on each scheme listed in table 1 of the appendix to 1981–82 Class VI, 1 section of the Supply Estimates; and how this compares with the estimated provisions in each case.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe information is as follows:
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New Construction and Improvement: Motorways and Trunk Roads Supply Estimate Provision 1981–82 Actual Expenditure 1981–82 £'000 £'000 Motorways Schemes in progress (contracts let by 31 October 1980) M1 London-Yorkshire Motorway Breakspear-Berry grove 11,791 10,257 M20 Mid Kent Motorway Ashford-Folkestone 7,083 12,983 M25 London Outer Orbital Motorway Yeoveny-Airport Spur 10,211 10,060 A10-M11 33,452 27,646 A12-A13 25,047 23,574 M11-A12 22,129 19,979 A111-A10 5,668 8,749 M63 Manchester Outer Ring Road Stockport East/West Bypass, Stage 2 3,473 3,800 Stockport East/West Bypass, Stages 4/5 8,402 9,892 M67 Hyde and Demon By-pass Motorway Denton Relief Road, Stage 1 3,228 3,650 M531 Ellesmere Port Motorway Southern Extension (100 per cent. Grant Scheme) 6,540 6,709 M602 Salford-Eccles Motorway Extension to Salford Docks (100 per cent. Grant Scheme) 9,170 8,146 Proposals to start (contracts let after 31 October 1980) M25 London Outer Orbital Motorway Chertsey to Reigate-Chertsey to Wisley Section 10,115 5,684 M27 South Coast Motorway Chilworth to Hedge End 9,836 2,331 M54 Telford Motorway Telford-M6 15,866 11,543 M65 Calder Valley Route Hyndburn-Bumley (including Accrington Easterly Bypass (Northern Section) 13,753 10,255 TRUNK ROADS Schemes in progress (contracts let by 31 October 1980) Proposed Colchester-Harwich Road Colchester Eastern and Elmstead Market Bypass (Essex) 9,724 11,313 London-Tilbury Road Mar Dyke-East of Grays (Essex) 9,733 10,369 East of Snaith-Sunderland Road Billingham Diversion (Cleveland) 7,142 7,846 London-Canterbury-Dover Road Canterbury Southern Bypass (Kent) 3,168 3,768 Winchester-Preston Road Kingsworthy-Bullington (Sutton Scotney Bypass) (Hants.) 5,664 5,545 Felixstowe-Weedon and London-Yarmouth Roads Ipswich Southern and Eastern Bypass (Suffolk) 22,416 22,495
Supply Estimate Provision 1981–82 Actual Expenditure 1981–82 £'000 £'000 Manchester-Burnley Road Haslingdon Bypass (Lancashire) 5,982 5,891 Girton-Godmanchester Road Bar Hill-Godmanchester (Cambridgeshire) 3,904 1,064 Kendal-Doncaster Road Skipton Western and Northern Bypasses (N. Yorkshire) 5,366 5,263 Proposals to start (contracts let after 31 October 1980) Sheffield-Grimsby Road Brigg-Grimsby (Humberside) 6,741 8,811 London-Carlisle-Glasgow-Inverness Road Derby Ring Road 4,047 2,245 London-Fishguard Road Gloucester Northern Bypass 3,812 4,746 Manchester-Bumley Road Accrington Eastern Bypass (Southern Section) 101 — Liverpool-Leeds-Hull Road South Docks Road, Hull (Humberside) 4,945 4,252 Total 288,509 268,866 The estimates themselves included on off-setting allowance of £10.9 million for work which might not in the events be undertaken in the year, though this covered smaller schemes as well as those costing over £10 million each.
§ Mr. Roy Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will update with his latest estimates table 2 of the appendix to the 1981–82 Class VI, 1 of the 1981–82 Supply estimates; and if he will publish on the same basis similar figures for 1982–83.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe information is attached:—
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The following is an updated version of table 2 of the appendix to Class VI, 1 of the 1981–82 Supply Estimates: Motorways and Trunk Roads Current estimate of total cost Expenditure to 31 March 1981 Actual expenditure in 1981–82 £000 £000 £000 Work in progress at 1 April 1981 on schemes costing more than £1million 826,713 322,740 246,051 New schemes proposed to start in 1981–82 costing more than £1million 439,212 13,206 85,758 Residual expenditure on completed schemes and preliminary expenditure on land, etc. for future schemes costing £1 million or more — — 48,819 TOTAL 1,265,925 335,946 380,628
Motorways and Trunk Roads Current estimate of total cost Expenditure to 31 March 1981 Actual expenditure in 1981–82 £000 £000 £000 Other schemes costing less than £1 million each — — 25,259 Less: Allowance for services which may not be carried out in the year — — — TOTAL—Subhead A1 405,887 Notes:
(1) The column giving the estimated requirements at survey prices has been omitted because public expenditure figures are now presented solely on a cash basis.
(2) The expenditure figures for 1981–82 are provisional.
The following table gives similar figures for 1982–83 Motorways and Trunk Roads Current estimate of total cost Expenditure to 31 March 1982 Actual expenditure in 1982–83 £000 £000 £000 Work in progress at 1 April 1982 on schemes costing more than £1million 747,622 324,783 265,826 New schemes proposed to start in 1982–83 costing more than £1million 636,088 12,978 116,344 Residual expenditure on completed schemes and preliminary expenditure on land, etc. for future schemes costing £1 million or more — — 68,895 TOTAL 1,383,710 37,761 451,065 Other schemes costing less than £1 million each — — 33,489 Less: Allowance for services which may not be carried out in the year — — 10,000 Total—Subhead A1 474,554 Notes:
See note 1 to the previous table.