§ Mr. FryTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what records his Department keeps of the cost of maintenance and repairs for individual sections of motorway and trunk road.
§ Mr. Kenneth CarlisleMy Department keeps extensive records of the cost of maintenance and repairs; these costs are being progressively entered into, and retained on, a number of computerised systems, so that information can be extracted for individual sections as required.
§ Mr. FryTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what records his Department keeps of the historic maintenance requirements of different forms of motorway and trunk road construction.
§ Mr. Kenneth CarlisleMy Department keeps extensive maintenance records. These are used, inter alia, to ensure that the standards required of new construction reflect current needs and accord with minimum whole-life costs.
It is a requirement under all major new construction and maintenance schemes for records of construction known as "as built drawings" to be recorded. Steps are under way to computerise these records.