§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for Transport how many towns with over 10,000 population do not have a trunk road bypass; how many of these will be bypassed by 1990; and for how many there are no bypasses programmed.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeAbout 70 out of the nearly 300 such towns in England lying on trunk roads have neither a specific bypass nor a substantial degree of relief from a nearby major new route. About 50 of these will benefit from schemes in the programme published in "Policy for Roads: England 1980" of which I would expect at least half to be completed by 1990. We also have plans for futher bypasses for a number of towns already relieved in at least one direction.