§ Mr. MuddTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list all the motorway and trunk road contracts in Wales with a works cost of £1 million or more which his Department intends to award in 1988–89 showing, in each case, the total value of the contract and the expenditure likely to be incurred in that year.
§ Mr. Wyn Roberts[holding answer 8 February 1988]: Subject to the satisfactory completion of statutory procedures, the completion of engineering design and the availability of resources, we hope to let contracts for the following major schemes in 1988–89:
- A48 Nantycaws-Coed Hirion Bypass
- A55 Travellers Inn
- A483 Chirk Bypass
- A55 Pen-y-Clip Tunnels
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January to March 1987 All cases Welsh districts Cases accepted Of which homeless due to action by landlord Placed in temporary accommodation Placed in bed and breakfast Aberconwy 17 6 2 1 Alyn and Deeside 45 10 3 1 Arfon 9 5 6 0 Blaenau Gwent 86 6 9 2 Brecknock 13 5 0 0 Cardiff 184 44 117 76 Carmarthen 19 8 5 2 Ceredigion 19 6 3 0 Colwyn 9 3 4 4 Cynon Valley 63 4 2 0 Delyn 63 2 34 0 Dinefwr 20 3 6 6 Dwyfor 10 3 1 1 Glyndwr 6 1 0 0 Islwyn 17 1 3 1 Llanelli 55 16 4 4 Lliw Valley 18 1 0 0 Meirionnydd 14 6 2 0 Merthyr Tydfil 17 0 12 0 Monmouth 73 16 15 1 Montgomeryshire 6 1 0 0 Neath 70 19 25 12 Newport 74 18 35 0 Ogwr 75 7 15 3 Port Talbot/Afan 42 19 18 1 Preseli 17 7 10 8 Radnor 4 0 0 0 Rhondda 41 0 1 1 Rhuddlan 20 3 3 1 Rhymney Valley 39 2 0 0 South Pembrokeshire 22 6 6 0 Swansea 63 11 25 0 Taff-Ely 26 2 1 0 Torfaen 77 6 11 0 Vale of Glamorgan 32 8 8 0 Wrexham Maelor 83 14 4 0 Ynys Môn 8 2 1 1 Wales Total (LA) 1,456 271 391 126 It is not possible to give the cost of the contracts or the expenditure to be incurred in 1988–89, since this will depend on the value of the accepted tenders and the contractors' programmes of work.