§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the major maintenance scheme to be undertaken on the trunk road and motorway network during the financial year 1997–98, indicating the likely cost, start and completion dates for each scheme. [10130]
§ Glenda JacksonI have asked the chief executive of the Highways Agency to write to my hon. Friend.
Letter from Lawrie Haynes to Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody, dated 24 July 1997:
701WThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, has asked me to reply to your request to list those major maintenance schemes, to be undertaken on the trunk road and motorway network during the financial year 1997–98, and to give an indication of the likely cost, start and completion dates for each scheme.I enclose with this letter a list of those major maintenance projects, that is those costing over £1m, which the Highways Agency intends to undertake this financial year.
Trunk roads capital roads maintenance Highways Agency's intended programme for 1997–8 Road Repair section Area Estimated cost (£ million) Start End M1 Junction 25 to Junction 26 Derbyshire 3.500 October 1997 November 1997 M5 Junction 14 to Junction 15 Gloucestershire 2.000 October 1997 December 1997 M5/M6 Ray Hall Interchange Walsall 3.500 August 1997 November 1997 M6 Junction 14 to Junction 15 Staffordshire 0.650 July 1997 August 1997 M23 Junction 8 to Junction 9 Surrey 4.700 January 1998 April 1998 M25 Junction 23 to Junction 24 Hertfordshire 1.600 February 1998 June 1998 M27 Junction 8 to Junction 10 Hampshire 7.630 January 1997 June 1997 M42 Junction 3 to Junction 3A Warwickshire 0.670 June 1997 August 1997 M42 Junction 7A to Junction 8 Warwickshire 2.200 September 1997 October 1997 M53 Junction 9 to Junction 10 Cheshire 2.160 August 1997 December 1997 M54 Junction 5 to Junction 6 Shropshire 2.700 July 1997 October 1997 M62 Junction 11 to Junction 12 Manchester 1.232 September 1997 November 1997 A249 WestMinster to Sheerness Kent 1.000 September 1997 December 1997 In addition the DBFO Company responsible for M40 (Junctions 1–15) has undertaken the following M40 Junction 6 to Junction 8 Oxfordshire n/a April 1997 July 1997