§ Mr. Trippierasked the Minister of Transport if he is now in a position to start the action study of road construction sub-units.
§ Mr. FowlerYes. I announced, on publishing the report of the Rayner scrutiny of the RCU organisation, my policy decision to phase out sub-units by transferring their work to consultants and county councils ; and that there would be an action study to provide the basis for detailed decisions on the individual schemes and sub-units. Following consultations with the main organisations concerned, I have today sent to them and to individual county councils detailed policy guidelines for the action study and factual information about schemes, taking account of the White Paper on roads which I published last week. I have asked for an early response. The aim is to complete the action study within about three months from now.
49WCopies of the action study documents have been placed in the Library.