§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport on which occasions, in the past five years, he has offered 100 per cent. grants to highway authorities for the construction of particular roads; and what criteria he operates when determining whether to provide 100 per cent. grants for local road schemes.
§ Mr. Kenneth CarlisleIn the past five years the Department has offered 100 per cent. grants to local highway authorities for the road schemes:
- A15 Brigg and Redbourne bypass, Humberside
- Al20 Stansted-Braintree, Essex
- A418 Leighton Linslade bypass, Bedfordshire
- A602 Little Wymondley bypass, Hertfordshire
- A418 Wing bypass, Buckinghamshire
- A134 Fornham St. Martin, Suffolk
- Black Country Spine road, West Midlands
- M56-A6 (M), Manchester airport link road (central section)
- A15-A16 Market Deeping-Deeping St. James bypass, Lincolnshire
- A158 Scremby, Lincolnshire
Our practice is to use this power sparingly for roads which will be trunked on completion, where the local highway authority has made such progress that significant delay would be caused if the scheme were promoted by the Department.