§ Mr. David Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all the motorway and trunk road construction contracts with a works cost of £1 million or more which his Department intends to award in 1987–88, showing in each case the total value of the contract and the expenditure likely to be incurred in that year.
§ Mr. AncramContracts for the following major schemes, each estimated to cost over £1 million, are expected to be let in 1987–88:
Estimated Total Cost1 £ million A7 Middleton Bypass 1.9 A75 Castle Douglas Bypass 3.9 A75 Glenluce Bypass 3.8 A77 Balsalloch to Balcreuchan 3.8 M8 Starlaw Junction, Livingston 1.8 M80 Stepps Bypass (Advance Works) 5.1 A82 Auchendennan to Arden (Loch Lomond) 1.7 A82 Luss to Camus Nan Clais (Loch Lomond) 7.5 A830 Polnish to Lochailort 2.5 A9 Dornoch Firth Approach Roads (South) 6.0 A9 Dornoch Firth Approach Roads (North) 2.5 A9 Dunbeath Bridge 3.1 A92 East Fife Regional Road, Stage III 12.2 A92 East Fife Regional Road, Stage IV 5.1 A92 Ellon Bypass 3.7 A92 Tipperty 2.2 A94 Candy to Stonehaven 3.0 1 Includes works, land and professional fees. Start dates during the year, and hence likely expenditure in the year, are dependent on the completion of statutory procedures and monitoring of expenditure on schemes in progress. Depending on these factors, it might prove possible to bring some additional schemes into the programme for 1987–88.