HC Deb 08 February 1988 vol 127 cc3-4W
Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans London Underground Limited has for franchising or contracting the managements of stations to commercial or voluntary bodies.

Mr. David Mitchell

I understand there are no such plans.

Official Report, column 571–72, all the motorway and trunk road contracts with a works cost of £1 millon or more which his Department had intended to award in 1987–88 but no longer anticipated doing, with, in each case, an indication of when the contract might be let.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Construction has started or is expected to start as planned on 29 of the schemes listed in my answer of 2 April 1987. Current estimates of dates for start of works on the remainder are as follows: