Roads (Hansard, 21 January 2004)

§ Mr. Chope
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his estimate is of the proportion of congestion on roads in England and Wales which is caused by poorly planned and lengthy street works carried out(a) by utilities and (b) by or on behalf of highway authorities. [145530]

§ Mr. Jamieson
[holding answer 5 January 2004]: The Department does not hold figures for the proportion of congestion cause by street works that are poorly planned or lengthy, whether carried out by utilities or highway authorities. However, Transport Research Laboratory figures indicate that all types of road and utility works cause around 10 per cent. of congestion on the Highways Agency's Trunk Road and Motorway system. The proportion of this carried out by Utility Companies is under 2 per cent.
The Department does not hold equivalent figures for local roads. Relatively little utility apparatus is located under motorways and trunk roads. Therefore, congestion caused by utility works on local authority roads will be significantly higher than the equivalent figure for Highways Agency roads given above.

§ David Taylor
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of the Highways Agency's budget was spent on road maintenance projects in(a) 2002 and (b) 2003. [149147]

§ Mr. Jamieson
The proportion spent in 2002–03 and forecast to be spent in 2003–04 is about 46 per cent.

§ David Taylor
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what major improvements are planned to the trunk road network. [148927]

§ Mr. Jamieson
The Highways Agency's Targeted Programme of Improvements (TPI) to the trunk road and motorway network currently comprises 72 schemes each costing more than £5 million. These are:

A1 (M) Ferrybridge—Hook Moor (under construction)

A1(M) Wetherby—Walshford (under construction)

A2—Cobham Phase 1 (under construction)

A2 Bean—Cobham Phase 2

A2/A282 Dartford Improvement

A5 Weeford—Fazeley Improvement

A10 Wadesmill Colliers End (under construction)

A14 Rookery Crossroads Grade Separated Junction

A21 Lamberhurst Bypass (under construction)

A34 Chieveley/M4 J13 Improvement (under construction)

A63 Selby By-pass (under construction)

1241W

A120 Stansted—Braintree Improvement (under construction)

A249 Iwade—Queenborough Improvement

A303 Stonehenge

A421 Great Barford By-pass

A500 City Road and Stoke Junction Improvement

M25 J12–15 Widening (under construction)

M60 J5–8 Widening (under construction)

A1 1 Attleborough By-pass

All Fiveways—Thetford Improvement

A47 Thorney By-pass

M6 Carlisle to Guardsmill extension

A63 Melton Grade Separated Junction

A14 Haughley New St—Stowmarket Improvement

A3 Hindhead Improvement

A38 Dobwalls By-pass

A595 Parton—Lillyhall Improvement

A1 Peterborough—Blyth Grade Separated Junctions

M62 Junction 6 Improvement

A46 Newark—Widmerpool Improvement

A30 Bodmin Indian Queens

A483 Pant—Llanymynech Bypass

A5117/A550 Deeside Park Junctions Improvement

A419 Blunsdon

A66 Temple Sowerby and Improvement at Winderwath

AI Dishforth to Leeming

A1 Bramham—Wetherby (Including Wetherby By-pass)

A1 Leeming to Barton

A64 Rillington By-pass

M40/A404 Handy Cross Junction Improvement

A47 Blofield to North Burlingham Dualling

A66 Greta Bridge to Stephen Bank Improvement

A66 Carkin Moor to Scotch Corner Improvement

A428 Caxton Common to Hardwick Improvement

A30/A3 82 Merrymeet Junction

A66 Long Newton Junction

A1 Stannington Junction (under construction)

A69 Haydon Bridge By-pass

A419 Commonhead Junction

M4 Junction 18 Eastbound Diverge

M5 Junctions 17–18 Northbound Climbing Lane

M5 Junctions 19–20 Southbound Climbing Lane

M5 Junctions 19–20 Northbound Climbing Lane

M1 Junction 19

A14 Ellington—Fen Ditton Improvement

A57/A628 Mottram in Longdendale, Hollingworth and Tintwistle By-pass

A45/A46 Tollbar End Improvement

M1 Junction 6a to 10 Widening

M1 Junction 10 to 13 Widening

A1 Morpeth to Felton Dualling

A1 Adderstone to Belford Dualling

A1/A19/A106 8 Seaton Burn Junction Improvement

A19/A184 Testos Grade Separated Junction

A505 Dunstable Northern Bypass (A5 to M1 Link)

A421 Bedford to M1 Junction 13

A21 Tonbridge to Pembury

M40 Junction 15 (Longbridge)

A64 Colton Lane Grade Separated Junction

1242W

A590 High and Low Newton By-pass

M20 Junction 10A

A30 Garland Cross to Chiverton Cross

A30 Temple to Higher Carblake Improvement