§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport which major road schemes in the local transport settlement for 2002 were(a) accepted, (b) provisionally approved, (c) considered work in progress and (d) rejected. [89535]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe Mansfield-Ashfield Regeneration Route was fully accepted in the 2002 Local Transport Settlement announced in December.
The following schemes were provisionally approved. It will now be for the relevant local authorities to progress the schemes through the remaining statutory procedures.
- North Middlesbrough Accessibility Improvements—Middlesbrough
- Sunderland Central Route—Sunderland
- Cadishead Way—Salford
- Ashton Northern Bypass Stage 2—Tameside
- Wigan Inner Relief Road—Wigan
- A58 Blackbrook Diversion—St. Helens
- A165 Reighton Bypass—N. Yorks
- A43 Corby Link Road—Northamptonshire
- A24 Horsham-Capel Improvement—W. Sussex/Surrey
- A24 Ashington/Southwater Improvement—W. Sussex
- A228 Leybourne and West Mailing Bypass—Kent
- Mereoak Roundabout Improvement—Wokingham
Insufficient information was available for a decision on the following schemes which are now classified as 'work in progress'. The schemes will be reconsidered when the local authorities concerned provide sufficient further information.
- Halfpenny Link—Sheffield/Rotherham
- Roscommon Way—Essex
- A391 St Austell to A30 Link—Cornwall
- Northern Gateway—North Tyneside
- Manor Park Bends Improvement—Bradford
- A605 Stanground Bypass—Peterborough
- A38-A370 Link Road—North Somerset
No schemes were rejected.