§ Mr. Roy Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will present in the Official Report estimates for the 1981–82 outturn for each of the following sub-heads of the "Roads, &c. England" Vote (a) new construction and improvement, (b) preparation and supervision, (c) box girder bridges, (d) maintenance, (e) retrospective commission, (f) total (a) to (e), (g) road lighting, (h) road safety, (i) roads, other expenditure, (j) principal and other roads, (k) total (f) to (j), (l) total appropriations in aid and 290W (m) net total, showing in each the provision made in the 1981–82 Supply Estimates and the percentage difference
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe information is as follows. The 1981–82 outturn figures are provisional at this stage
Provision Provisional Otturn Provisional Percentage Difference £ £ (a) New construction and improvement *479,491,000 405,887,326 *-15 (b) Preparation and supervision 58,925,000 47,413,190 -20 (c) Box girder bridges 349,000 139,840 -60 (d) Maintenance *138,539,000 172,186,951 *+24 (e) Retrospective compensation 3,270,000 824,671 -75 (f) Total (a)-(e) 680,574,000 626,451,978 -8 (g) Road lighting 11,336,000 10,857,202 -4 (h) Road safety 531,000 532,317 — (i) Roads: other expenditure 4,513,000 2,261,368 -50 (j) Principal and other roads 10,148,990 11,365,795 +12 (k) Total (f)-(j) †707,103,000 651,468,660 -8 (l) Appropriations in aid -11,707,000 ‡-11,707,000 — (m) Net total 695,396,000 639,761,660 -8 Notes: * Early in the financial year £21 million was transferred from new construction to maintenance to allow additional urgent structural maintenance work to be undertaken; † This figure includes a token estimate of £10 million for payments from the European regional development fund; ‡ Actual appropriations in aid were £17,178,161 (47 per cent. more than the provision), but in accordance with the usual practice, receipts in excess of the voted provision are surrendered to the Consolidated Fund.