§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent assessment he has made of the advantages of trunking the A56. [8193]
§ Mr. WattsI met the hon. Gentleman twice last year to discuss this and other issues; on 27 February in London and on 5 June on a visit to Lancashire and Yorkshire.
The position has not changed since my letter to the hon. Gentleman of 25 April 1995, in which I said that I saw no reason for proceeding with trunking the A56—between Colne and the A59 near Skipton—outside of a more general review of the trunk road network.
The Green Paper, "Transport: the Way Forward" published in April 1996 described our response to local authority proposals on the trunk road network, at paragraph 14.84.