HC Deb 02 November 1999 vol 337 cc84-5W
Mr. Jenkin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the bids made by each local authority in their Provisional Local Transport Plan for the years 2000–01 and 2001–02 for projected local transport capital expenditure on(a) maintenance of principal highways, (b) maintenance, assessment and strengthening of bridges, (c) individual schemes costing more than £5 million and (d) individual schemes and groups of related schemes costing less than £5 million. [97087]

Mr. Hill

I have placed a copy of the information requested in the House of Commons Library.

Mr. Jenkin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list for each local authority the submissions given in their Provisional Local Transport Plans for 2000–01 with regard to the targets required under the Road Traffic Reduction Act 1997. [97088]

Mr. Hill

We received 85 provisional Local Transport Plans covering 116 English local traffic authorities and 33 interim transport plans from London Boroughs. Authorities were required to include interim non-statutory road traffic reduction reports in their plans. Local authorities have made these plans publicly available.

The reports took a variety of positions on the question of whether, and at what level, to set targets for reducing the level of traffic, or its rate of growth, on local roads. A review of the content of these reports has been carried out as part of the work currently in progress for the Government's first report under the Road Traffic Reduction (National Targets) Act 1998 at the end of this year. The results of that review will be made publicly available in due course.

Mr. Jenkin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list for each local authority the proposals for bypasses and other major road schemes made in their provisional local transport plan. [97071]

Mr. Hill

We have received 85 provisional local transport plans covering 116 local highway authorities in England, excluding London. Specific proposals for major road schemes costing more than £5 million with potential start dates within the five year local transport plan period (2000–1 to 2004–5) are as follows:

Authority Scheme
Bedfordshire A507 Ridgmont Bypass and Woburn Link
Bedford Western Bypass
Cambridgeshire A142 Fordham Bypass
Essex A131 Great Leighs Bypass
Hertfordshire Baldock Bypass
Norfolk Broome and Ellingham Bypass
Great Yarmouth A47/A149 Link Road
Suffolk Stowmarket B 1115 Relief Road
South Lowestoft Relief Road and Related Measures
Derby City Derby Spur Extension
Derbyshire Markham Employment Growth Zone
Leicestershire Ashby Bypass Stage 2
Nottinghamshire A617 Mansfield Ashfield Regeneration Route
A6002/A6007 Coventry Lane Improvement
Rutland Oakham Bypass
Darlington Darlington Cross Town Route Eastern Section
Stockton-on-Tees South Stockton Link
Cheshire A34 Alderley Edge Environmental Bypass
Cumbria Carlisle Northern Development Route
Liverpool Hall Lane Area Improvement
Salford Manchester Salford Inner Relief Route
Wirral Birkenhead Town Link Diversion
Buckinghamshire A4146 Stoke Hammond and Linslade Western Bypass
East Sussex Newhaven Port Access Road
Bexhill and Hastings Link Roads
Kent East Kent Access (Phases 1 and 2)
Medway A228 Chattenden to Ropers Lane
Surrey A244 Cross Thames Transport Corridor
Bristol A4 Bath Road to Callington Road Link
Cornwall Grampound Bypass
Devon Barnstaple Western Bypass
Dorset Weymouth Transportation and Regeneration Project
Gloucestershire A436 Shipton Solers to Air Balloon Improvement
Somerset Brigdewater Northern Distributor
Wiltshire Western Wiltshire Regeneration Corridor
Birmingham Northfield Regeneration Scheme
Selly Oak Access Road
Sandwell Cradley Heath Town Centre Strategy (A4100) (A)
Shropshire A53 Hodnet Bypass
Staffordshire Burntwood Bypass
Biddulph Bypass
Rugeley Eastern Bypass Stage 2
Stoke-on-Trent Hanley Bentilee Link
City Centre Link
Warwickshire Barford Bypass
Worcestershire Wyre Piddle Bypass
Barnsley Coalfields Link Road Phases 2 and 3
Cudworth By Pass
Doncaster A6023 Denaby Main Diversion
Leeds East Leeds Link Road
Leeds Inner Ring Road
N. East Lincolnshire South Humber Bank Link Road (Stage 2)
Rotherham West Bawtry Road Improvement
A57(T) Todwick Crossroads to M1 J31
Sheffield Inner Relief Road—Stages 2 and 3
North Yorkshire Scarborough Integrated Transport Scheme