HC Deb 27 February 1975 vol 887 cc241-2W
Mr. Loveridge

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment by what date a traveller from Europe arriving in a southern British port can hope to be able to drive by motorway to (i) the GLC area, and (ii) inner London.

Mr. Mulley

By the end of the decade it should be possible to drive to London by motorway from just north of Southampton. No new motorway links are planed for Newhaven. We are reviewing the implications of the decision on the Channel Tunnel for current road plans from Dover and Folkestone. The Greater

levels of subsidy are contemplated in future years; and what reasons there are for any significant changes in the pattern of subsidy.

Mr. Mulley

Direct central Government financial support to the bus industry in Great Britian over the past five years and the estimate for the current year is as follows:

London Council has no plans at present to build motorways from these directions into inner London.

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