§ Mr. SymsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans for bypasses have been(a) cancelled and (b) proposed since May 1997. [141485]
§ Mr. Hill[holding answer 11 December 2000]: Twenty of the 40 schemes in our Targeted Programme of trunk road improvements are bypasses. This does not include any bypasses approved under the Local Transport Plan process. On trunk roads we cancelled two projects in 1997—Hereford and Salisbury—because of their serious impact on environmentally sensitive sites.