HC Deb 13 June 1986 vol 99 cc340-1W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the 20 contractors who have received the largest share of motorway and trunk road construction contracts in the past three years, giving for each contractor the total value of contracts received.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

During the three years 1983, 1984 and 1985, motorway and trunk road construction contracts of over £100,000 each in value were awarded as follows:

Total value of contracts £ million
1. Balfour Beatty Ltd. 95.0
2. Cementation Construction Ltd. *93.8
3. Tarmac Construction Ltd. 87.0
4. Costain Civil Engineering Ltd. *82.4
5. John Laing Construction Ltd. 62.4
6. Alfred McAlpine Construction Ltd. (formerly Sir Alfred McAlpine & Son Ltd.) †59.
7. Fairclough Civil Engineering Ltd. †49.7
8. Edmund Nuttall Ltd. 42.5
9. Wimpey Construction UK Ltd. 38.0
10. A. F. Budge (Contractors) Ltd. 31.1
11. Dowsett Engineering Construction Ltd. 28.5
12. A. Monk & Co. plc. 24.1
13. Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd. ‡21.
14. A. E. Farr Ltd. (formerly Bovis Civil Engineering Ltd.) ║20.4
15. Peter Birse Ltd. ║20.0
16. John Mowlem & Co. plc. 16.5
17. R. M. Douglas Construction Ltd. 15.3
18. May Gurney & Co. Ltd. 15.2
19. M. J. Gleeson Group plc. 11.5
20. Roadworks (1952) Ltd. 7.4
*Includes £50.4 million awarded to consortium Cementation Construction Ltd./Costain Civil Engineering Ltd. (two contracts).

†Includes £26.9 million awarded to consortium Sir Alfred McAlpine & Son Ltd./Fairclough Civil Engineering Ltd.

‡Includes £0.1 million awarded to consortium Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd./Thyssen (Great Britain) Ltd.

║Includes £14.7 million awarded to consortium Bovis Civil Engineering Ltd./Peter Birse Ltd.

Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary State for Transport if he will list the motorway and trunk road schemes for which he intended to award a contract in the year ended 31 March but which are still outstanding.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Five contracts which we hoped to let in 1985–86 remain outstanding:

A27 Havant to Chichester

  • Tenders received; to be let next month.

A303 Furze Hedge Improvement

  • Tenders received; to be let next month.

A629 Kildwick to Beechcliffe

  • Tenders invited; to he let in August.

M5 Warndon to Rashwood

  • Tenders to be invited next month.

A30 Okehampton Bypass

  • Tenders to be invited next month.