§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Minister of Transport, if his application for planning permission is successful, when, approximately, he anticipates construction work on the M40 motorway between Birmingham and Oxford will start; and what is the earliest date for completion.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeIt is too early to say with any useful precision. For the place of the schemes which make up this proposed new route in the revised trunk road programme, I must ask my hon. Friend to await the forthcoming roads White Paper.