§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many public inquiries into road proposals there have been under the Highways Act 1959 to 1971 since 1st January 1960; in how many cases the inspector recommended rejection, acceptance or variation of the proposals; and in how many inquiries of each of these categories the Secretary of State accepted the inspector's recommendation;
(2) if he will list the public inquiries into road schemes where the inspector recommended rejection of the scheme or where the Secretary of State rejected the scheme.
§ Mr. MarksI regret that this information is not available and that it would require a disproportionate amount of work to obtain it. I shall write to the hon. Member with what information we have available.