§ Mr. Roy Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Transport if, in the light of amended criteria for cost/ benefit analysis, his Department has looked again at trunk road schemes which had failed to achieve a net present value.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThere were 14 COBA negative schemes in the trunk road programme. So far only one scheme has been reassessed following the new value of leisure time and casualty costs. This scheme (Louth) has been reassessed as positive. The others will all be reassessed in due course at the point where decisions concerning their development have to be made.
Schemes for which decisions have already been announced will not he reassessed.