§ Mr. Rookerasked the Minister of Transport if, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr on 28 October, any further cases of dropped steel beams on the elevated sections of the Midland link motorways have been discovered.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeNo further cases of dropped beams have been discovered on the elevated sections of the Midland link motorways since I replied to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr on 28 October.
In that reply I listed a total of 44 cases of dropped steel beams on the elevated sections of the Midland link motorways. Since then our agent, West Midland county council, has reported that full information had not been passed to the Department and that the number should have been 57. Apart from the two cases at Gravelly Hill, the resulting damage to the deck slabs is only slight.