HC Deb 01 November 1989 vol 159 cc194-5W
Mr. Oppenheim

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what changes he proposes to make to the cash limits on his votes and to his Department's running costs limit.

Mr. Parkinson

Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimates, the cash limits for my votes are to be changed as follows:

London for each year since 1975 to date; and what is proposed to be spent, and on what projects, for the remainder of this year and each year until 1995.

Mr. Atkins

Details of construction costs for individual projects costing over £1 million each in progress in the period 1986–87 to 1989–90 are shown in table 1. All 1989–90 figures are estimates.

Expenditure in future years will be determined by progress on preparation and construction of individual projects and the total funds available for road building.

The information for earlier years could be provided only at a disproportionate cost.

Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to receive the report from Ove-Arup partners on the east London assessment study.

Mr. Atkins

I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 23 October to my right hon. Friend the Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Sir B. Hayhoe),Official Report, column 373.