HC Deb 17 December 1990 vol 183 cc58-9W
Mr. Speed

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether all the road improvements in Kent authorised by his Department in connection with improved access to the channel tunnel will be completed by the time the tunnel is open in the summer of 1993.

Mr. Chope

The "missing link" in the M20 between Maidstone and Ashford is under construction. Statutory orders have been made authorising the widening of the section of M20 between junctions 5 and 8 and the provision of a new A20 route between Dover and Folkestone. We are on target to have all these improvements in place by the time the channel tunnel is due to open in summer 1993.