HC Deb 21 November 1949 vol 470 c3W
32. Mr. Molson

asked the Minister of Transport what effect the reductions in capital investment recently announced will have upon the scheme put forward by the London Plan Working Committee to spend £340 million upon new tubes for Greater London as described by him on 4th July, 1949.

Mr. Barnes:

As I explained in my answer to the hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Gammans), on 14th November, the application of the recent capital cuts to railway works is now being worked out. It is unlikely, however, that they will have any immediate effect upon the works proposed by the London Plan Working Party Report because these are, in the main, long-term proposals on which relatively little expenditure could, in any case, have been incurred in 1950.