§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on progress in repairing the bearing plinths at the Gravelly Hill viaduct on the Midland links motorway, indicating what proportion of the work has been completed, when completion was expected and when it can now be expected.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThis contract is being managed by West Midlands county council as our agents. Some 61 per cent. of the bearing plinths have been repaired to date. The original contract period ran to 28 March, but the engineer—WMCC's county surveyor has agreed a 5-week extension mainly on account of the adverse weather conditions experienced earlier in the winter.