asked the Minister of Transport if he will provide a table showing the actual expenditure in England and the expenditure planned in the appropriate public expenditure White Paper, all at 1979 survey prices, and the shortfall as a proportion of the planned budget for motorway and trunk road maintenance, local road construction and local road maintenance for each of the years 1976–77, 1977–78 and 1978–79.

The information is as follows:an economic development committee for transport.

I am considering whether this would be the best way to involve the main interests concerned in the development of transport policy.