HC Deb 19 December 1986 vol 107 c832W
Mr. Pawsey

asked the Secretary of State for Transport when construction work will start on the section of the M40 between Oxford and Birmingham; and when he anticipates that the M40 will be completed.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Subject to the satisfactory outcome of the remaining statutory procedures, work will start in the summer of 1987. The whole road could be open to traffic in 1990.