§ Mr. MooreTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) if he will list the(a) deferred road schemes by authority featured in the Local Transport Settlement for 2000–01 and (b) road schemes contained in the provisional local transport plans for 2001–02 to 2004–05; [119716]
(2) if he will ensure that road schemes costing more than £5 million contained in full local transport plans will not be accepted by the Government unless there is clear evidence that alternative solutions to traffic problems have been considered first, along with a statement of why such solutions have been rejected. [119717]
§ Mr. HillA decision to defer consideration of the following major road schemes until the Full Local Transport Plans are received this year was announced last December in the Provisional Local Transport Settlement for 2000–01:
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Area Scheme Barnsley Cudworth Bypass Birmingham Northfield Regeneration Birmingham Selly Oak Access Road Bristol A4 Bath Road to Callington Road Link Cheshire A34 Alderley Edge Environmental Bypass Cumbria Carlisle Northern Development Route Darlington Darlington Cross Town Route Eastern Section Derby Derby Spur Extension Derbyshire Markham Employment Growth Zone Devon Barnstaple Western Bypass Dorset Weymouth Transportation and Regeneration Project East Sussex Newhaven Port Access Road Kent East Kent Access (Phase 1) Kent East Kent Access (Phase 2) Leeds East Leeds Link Road Leeds Leeds Inner Ring Road (Stage 7) Lincolnshire Future Major Economic Regeneration Scheme Liverpool Hall Lane Area Improvement Medway A228 Chattenden to Ropers Lane Middlesbrough East Middlesbrough Transport Corridor North East Lincolnshire South Humber Bank Link Road (Stage 2) Rotherham West Bawtry Road Improvement Rutland Oakham/(Langham) Bypass Sandwell Cradley Heath Town Centre Strategy (A4100) Sheffield Inner Relief Road—Stages II and III Staffordshire Biddulph Bypass Staffordshire Rugeley Eastern Bypass Stage 2 Stoke-on-Trent Hanley Bentilee Link Suffolk South Lowestoft Relief Road Surrey A244 Cross Thames Transport Corridor Wiltshire Western Wiltshire Regeneration Corridor Wirral Birkenhead Town Link Division Worcestershire Wyre Piddle Bypass The following decisions were reached on the remaining major road schemes contained in the Provisional Local Transport Plans:
Area Scheme Accepted: Essex A131 Great Leighs Bypass Leicestershire Ashby Bypass Stage 2 Norfolk Broome and Ellingham Bypass Nottingham (G.N.) A6002/A6007 Coventry Lane Improvement Shropshire A53 Hodnet Bypass Somerset Bridgewater Northern Distributor Staffordshire Burntwood Bypass Stockton-on-Tees South Stockton Link Provisionally accepted: Barnsley Coalfields Link Road Phases 2 and 3 Bedfordshire A507 Ridgmont Bypass and Woburn Link Bedfordshire Bedford Western Bypass Buckinghamshire A4146 Stoke Hammond and Linsdale Western Bypass Cambridgeshire A142 Fordham Bypass Doncaster A6023 Denaby Main Division Hertfordshire Baldock Bypass Manchester, Salford Manchester/Salford Inner Relief Road (Regent Road/Gore Street) North Yorkshire Scarborough Integrated Transport Scheme Nottinghamshire A617 Mansfield Ashfield Regeneration Route Suffolk Stowmarket BI115 Relief Road Rejected: Birmingham Dudley Road Traffic Management Phase 2 Cornwall Grampound Bypass East Sussex Bexhill and Hastings Link Road Norfolk Great Yarmouth A47/A149 Link Road Reading Cow Lane Bridges/Oxford Road Relief Road Rotherham A57(T) Todwick Crossroads to M1 J31 Stoke-on-Trent Tunstall Northern Bypass Stoke-on-Trent City Centre Link Warwickshire Barford Bypass West Sussex Angmering Bypass The "Guidance on Full Local Transport Plans" which was published in March of this year makes it clear that before major road schemes can be accepted for funding if bid for in the Full Local Transport Plans, local authorities will need to demonstrate that there is a problem that needs addressing and that they have looked for alternative solutions, in accordance with the principles of New Approach to Appraisal.