HC Deb 27 January 1954 vol 522 cc234-5W
71. Major Anstruther-Gray

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether the three members of the panel examining Sir Bruce White's proposals for a road bridge over the Forth Railway Bridge are now restored to health and pressing on with the preparation of their report.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

I am glad to say that all members of the panel are now restored to health and are pressing on with their work on the Bruce White proposals. They have recently informed me that owing to the very general nature of those proposals, and the lack of a comprehensive detailed scheme, they find it necessary to consider the problem in much greater detail than they at first visualised, in order to establish the highway clearances that could be provided and the general feasibility of the project. They are proceeding with the production of amore comprehensive report, which they hope to present in March