Road Schemes (Hansard, 14 July 1994)

§ Mr. Cohen
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 30 June,Official Report, column 703, if he will list the three other locations at which 717W arrangements have been made for the gathering of information about protestors; which agency was used; and what was the cost.

§ Mr. Key
This question relates to operational matters of the Highways Agency. I have asked the chief executive, Mr. Lawrie Haynes, to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Lawrie haynes to Mr. Harry Cohen, dated 12 July 1994: I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the three other locations at which arrangements have been made for the gathering of information on protestors. This is a matter for which the Highways Agency is responsible. The trunk road schemes involved are the A12 Hackney Wick-M11 Link (Contract 4), the A11 Besthorpe-Wymondham scheme in Norfolk and the A4/A46 Batheaston Bypass in Avon. In all cases Brays Detective Agency have been used. Expenditure to date has been around £50,000 for the A12 contract, £450 for the All contract and £21,000 at Batheaston.

§ Mr. Cohen
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the order in which the road schemes costing over £1 million will be constructed in each of the regions of the Highways Agency.

§ Mr. Key
As announced in Match of this year, the following 22 new contracts for schemes over £1 million are due to start in the current financial year. These are listed by Government office region:
Northern

A19 Norton—Parkway Interchange Imp

A1 Shotton Slip Road

Al9 Arcot Hall—Moor Farm

North Western

M6 J20–21A Bridge Renewal

M66 Denton-Middleton Con 2

M65 Blackburn Southern Bypass Con 2

A568 Windnes Eastern Bypass South

A66 Lamplugh Junction Improvement

Yorkshire and Humberside

A621/M1 Link Road

A59 Skipton to Low Lodge

East Midlands

M1 J21–21A Widening Phase 1

A564 Derby Southern Bypass and Derby Spur

A564 Doveridge Bypass

West Midlands

A50 Blythe Bridge—Queensway Phase 2

M5 Junction 3–4 Lighting

Eastern

M40 J1A-3 Widening

A1(M) Alconbury—Peterborough Con 1

A13 Wennington—Mar Dyke Imp

A428 Bedford Southern Bypass

South Eastern

M25 J8–10 Widening

A34 Chieveley/M4 J13 Imp

A34 Newbury Bypass

A249 Brielle Way

M4 Junction 10 Lighting

M40 Banbury Maintenance Compound

A2 Lighting

M27 Junction 4 Lighting

South Western

M5 J18–19 Widening
718
A30 Honiton—Exeter Imp

London

Al2 Hackney—M11 Link Con 2

Al2 Hackney—Mll Link Con 3

A406 Silver Street—Fore Street Imp

The order in which these will start, and decisions on starts in future years is subject to the successful completion of statutory and contractual procedures, and availability of resources.

§ Mr. Cohen
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many studies on the economic impact of road building his Department has(a) carried out itself or (b) commissioned in the last 10 years.

§ Mr. Key
None.

§ Mr. Simon Hughes
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which road schemes have been authorised in the last 10 years which had a negative net present value; and which road schemes in the last 10 years have been rejected at the public inquiry stage or beyond, because they had a negative net present value.

§ Mr. Key
[holding answer 23 June 1994]: As the information requested relates to operational matters of the Highways Agency, I have asked the chief executive to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Lawrie Haynes to Mr. Simon Hughes, dated 12 July 1994: I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about which roads have been authorised in the last 10 years which had a negative net present value, or had been rejected at public inquiry stage or beyond because they had a negative net present value. To the best of my knowledge, no road schemes have been authorised in the last 10 years which have a negative net present value. Neither have there been any road schemes rejected at public inquiry stage or beyond because they had a negative net present value.