§ Mr. Muddasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list for all those projects shown in table I of the Supply Estimates 1984–85 class VI, I (a) the provision in the 1983–84 Estimates, (b) the actual expenditure to 31 March 1984, (c) the percentage by which the provision was underspent or overspent and (d) any delays to the expected completion date.
§ Mrs. Chalker[pursuant to the reply, 13 July 1984]: The information requested is given as follows:
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1984–85 Supply Estimates list 1983–84 Percentage variance between 1983–84 provision and expenditure 1983–84 Completion delayed to Estimate £000 Expenditure £000 A40 Tatling End—Maple Cross 10,211 10,124 -1 — Ancillary items 4,045 5,556 +37 — M42 BIRMINGHAM—NOTTINGHAM MOTORWAY Bromsgrove section Lickey End contract 3,229 1,142 -65 — Alvechurch contract 3,908 2,758 -29 — Umberslade contract 4,851 7,379 +52 1985–86 Tamworth section Polesworth south contract: Polesworth north contract 1,774 291 -84 1986–87 Kingsbury contract 1,333 232 -83 — Water Orton contract 2,953 0 -100 1986–87 Polesworth advance works 1,072 386 -64 — Kingsbury advance works 37 182 +392 — Water Orton advance works 106 208 +96 — M65 CALDER VALLEY ROUTE Whitebirk—Hyndburn † 14,191 — — AI(M) LONDON—EDINBURGH—THURSO ROAD Roestock—Stanborough 697 2,579 +270 — M25 LONDON OUTER ORBITAL MOTORWAY* Micklefield Green—South Mimms section Micklefield Green Bedmond road; Bedmond road—A405 2,857 0 -100 1986–87 A405—The Bell; The Bell—A1 420 0 -100 1986–87 Ancillary items; Watford—St. Albans branch line bridge; Radlett bridge † 1,489 — 1986–87 London—Penzance road Marsh Mills—Manadon 7,381 12,678 +72 — FELIXSTOWE—WEEDON AND LONDON—GREAT YARMOUTH ROAD Ipswich southern and eastern bypass Eastern section † 2,182 — — Copdock—Washbrook † 5,174 — — Orwell bridge † 2,029 — — Western section † 1,186 — — Southern section, east † 664 — — Southern section, west † 541 — — Advance earthworks † 0 — — LIVERPOOL—LEEDS—HULL ROAD South Docks road, Hull Main works 5,753 10,105 +76 — Advance works 148 134 -9 — Advance works—St. Andrews dock † — — — LONDON—GREAT YARMOUTH ROAD Chelmsford bypass † — — — LONDON—FOLKESTONE—DOVER ROAD Sidcup bypass Bexley main contract 4,672 257 -94 1987–88 Bexley civil engineering contract 305 395 +30 — Bexley statutory undertakings 498 793 +59 — LONDON—CARLISLE—GLASGOW—INVERNESS Chapel-en-le-Frith bypass † 2,795 0 — * The M25 will be completed in 1986. †No separate estimate printed.