§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Transport if any assessment has been made of the return on investment provided by a given expenditure on motorway conservation compared with a similar investment on the rail network.
§ Mr. William RodgersNo simple comparison is possible. The Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment, the setting up of which I announced on 10th December 1976, has, however, been examining this together with other problems.