§ Mr. Evelyn Kingasked the Minister of Transport if she will estimate the size of the cash cut in respect of road improvements likely to be imposed on the county of Dorset in 1968 consequent upon paragraph 45 of Command Paper No. 3515.
§ Mr. CarmichaelIt is not possible to specify the effect of the reductions on road improvement expenditure in individual counties or regions. The progress of individual improvement schemes (motorways, trunk and principal roads) in the national road programme will be kept under continuing review and starting dates adjusted as necessary to keep total expenditure within the new ceilings. As for other local authority expenditure on improvements, it will be for each authority to apportion the reduction called for between the various kinds of expenditure on roads.