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Dept for Transport Local Government and the Regions

Answer

Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will list the major existing road schemes in the Local Transport Settlement that are due to be carried out in 2002-03; which additional schemes have been (a) postponed because work is still progress and (b) rejected; and which authorities will receive the additional funding provided for road maintenance in 2002-03. [23987] Ms Keeble: Work is planned to start during the financial year 2002-03 on the following local major road schemes accepted for funding in previous year's Local Transport Settlements. The exact timing of the work is the responsibility of the relevant local authority and may depend on the satisfactory completion of any remaining statutory procedures. Construction work on a further 32 schemes is already in progress. Baldock Bypass--Hertfordshire Nar-Ouse Regeneration Project--Norfolk South Lowestoft Relief Road--Suffolk W. Thurrock Regeneration Ring Road--Thurrock Arlesey Bridge Replacement--Bedfordshire A142 Fordham Bypass--Cambridgeshire A1073 Spalding to Eye Improvement--Lincs/Peterborough A617 Mansfield Ashfield Regeneration Route--Nottinghamshire Eastern Transport Corridor--Darlington A689 Sedgefield to Wynard Improvement--Durham Bridgefoot Environmental Enhancement--Warrington East Kent Access Phase 1--Kent Semington to Melksham--Wiltshire NW Taunton Package--Somerset Cradley Heath Town Centre--Sandwell A53 Hodnet Bypass--Shropshire Barford Bypass--Warwickshire Rugby Western Bypass--Warwickshire Biddulph Inner Bypass--Staffordshire Rugeley Bypass--Staffordshire Coalfields Link Road Phases 2 and 3--Barnsley Glasshoughton Coalfields Link Road--Wakefield. Of the 45 bids for new local major schemes for which bids were received this year, 15 have been provisionally accepted subject to the satisfactory completion of all remaining statutory procedures; the following 25 require further work before a decision can be reached: A165 Reighton Bypass--N. Yorkshire A171 Burniston/Cloughton Bypass--N. Yorkshire A19 Shipton/Beningbrough Bypass--N. Yorkshire A228 Leybourne and West Malling Bypass--Kent A24 Horsham-Capel Improvement--W. Sussex A260 Hawkinge Bypass--Kent A350 Westbury Bypass--Wiltshire A36 Codford-Heytesbury Improvement--Wiltshire A38/A390 Link Dobwalls--Cornwall A391 Corridor--Cornwall A418 improvements inlcuding a Rowsham Bypass-- Buckinghamshire A418 Wing Bypass--Buckinghamshire A57 Cadishead Way--Salford A605 Stanground Bypass--Peterborough A61 Killingshall Bypass--N. Yorkshire A684 Leeming/Aiskew/Bedale Bypass--N. Yorkshire Ashton Northern Bypass (phase 2)--Tameside Botley Bypass--Hampshire Central Route--Sunderland Chickenhall Lane Link Road--Hampshire East Middlesbrough Corridor--Middlesbrough Northern Gateway Stage 2--North Tyneside Roscommon Way Extension--Essex Wylye Valley Relief Road--Wiltshire A1 SE Northumberland Link Road (Central Section)-- Northumberland. The following four were rejected: A52 Grantham East-West Bypass--Lincolnshire A182 East Durham Link Road--Durham Central Somerset Access Package--Somerset East Middlesbrough Transport Corridor--Middlesbrough. No decision has yet been announced on the following scheme which is being considered as part of the South East Manchester Multi Modal Study: Alderley Edge Bypass--Cheshire. The following local authorities will receive the additional £10 million provided for road maintenance in 2002-03: Birmingham Wolverhampton Brighton and Hove Cheshire Isle of Wight Warwickshire Oldham East Riding of Yorkshire Coventry Thurrock Stockport Poole Bournemouth.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

377 c227-8W; 23987

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Construction Finance Local government Roads Repairs and maintenance

Contains statistics

Yes

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