§ Mr. Holtasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, in view of the need to improve communications in south-east Lancashire in order to attract new industries to that area, if he will authorise the Preston—Lancaster part of the north-south motorway and bring forward the building plans for the remaining parts of the north-south motorway through Lancashire not yet begun.
§ Mr. NugentThe line for a motorway between the Preston by-pass and the Lancaster by-pass is being prepared with a view to publication in a draft Scheme, This is the first step in the necessary statutory processes. The building of the two viaducts in Lancashire on the Preston—Birmingham Motorway will take longer than the rest of the road, and we hope to let contracts for these in the first half of 1959.