HC Deb 06 July 1993 vol 228 cc75-6W
Mr. Jon Owen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans currently exist to put tolls on the motorway network.

Mr. Key

Draft orders were published last month for the construction of the Birmingham northern relief road. This will be this country's first privately built, operated and tolled overland motorway. The Green Paper, "Paying for Better Motorways", was published on 26 May in order to stimulate a public debate on the principle of introducing direct charging on the existing motorway network in Great Britain.