HC Deb 11 December 1981 vol 14 cc495-6W
Mr. Snape

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if the principal objectors to the proposed M40 will be able to meet his Department's traffic consultants on this scheme in order to discuss the assignment results.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

My officials will be available to meet any objector to discuss such matters and will arrange for consultants to be available where appropriate.

Mr. Snape

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many assignment runs of the Oxford to Birmingham route traffic model have been carried out by his Department's traffic consultants to date using (a) the NWT assignment method and (b) the NW2 assignment method; if he will make available for inspection copies of all the assignment results; and how many of these assignments were to road strategies which do not included the M40 motorway between Waterstock and Umberslade.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

Assignments have been carried out and refined on a number of occasions by both methods. The most recent material is available for inspection on request. Similar assignments that do not include the M40 between Warwick and Umberslade have also been carried out.