§ Mr. Fryasked the Secretary of State for Transport what has been the expenditure in the last five years on new construction and improvement on the Greater London Council metropolitan roads which it is proposed to trunk; and what expenditure is estimated to be necessary to bring these routes up to current trunk road standards.
§ Mrs. Chalker[pursuant to the reply, 9 December 1983, c. 264]: Following is the correct answer.
Precise figures are not available in my Department. GLC proposals in its transport policies and programmes documents involved some £10 million on the Rochester Way relief road and £2 million for all the rest. Until the studies proposed in my consultation document are carried out, it will be impracticable to decide which routes should be improved within the trunk road network, what is appropriate to each route and what it might cost.