HC Deb 16 June 1969 vol 785 c19W
51. Mr. Dodds-Parker

asked the Minister of Transport why 18 motorway and other trunk road contracts, with an estimated cost of over £100 million, listed by his department in October 1968 for starting in 1969, were postponed at the beginning of March by an average of nearly six months each.

Mr. Marsh

As my right hon. Friend explained in answer to Questions on 9th June there have been no deferments of schemes in the programme.—[Vol. 784, c. 946–8.]

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