asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all the motorway and trunk road construction contracts with a works cost of £1 million or more which his Department intends to award in 1987–88, showing in each case the total value of the contract and the expenditure likely to be incurred in that year.

Contracts for the following major schemes, each estimated to cost over £1 million, are expected to be let in 1987–88:

		Estimated Total Cost1 £ million
A7	Middleton Bypass	1·9
A75	Castle Douglas Bypass	3·9
A75	Glenluce Bypass	3·8
A77	Balsalloch to Balcreuchan	3·8
M8	Starlaw Junction, Livingston	1·8
M80	Stepps Bypass (Advance Works)	5·1
A82	Auchendennan to Arden (Loch Lomond)	1·7
A82	Luss to Camus Nan Clais (Loch Lomond)	7·5
A830	Polnish to Lochailort	2·5
A9	Dornoch Firth Approach Roads (South)	6·0
A9	Dornoch Firth Approach Roads (North)	2·5
A9	Dunbeath Bridge	3·1
A92	East Fife Regional Road, Stage III	12·2
A92	East Fife Regional Road, Stage IV	5·1
A92	Ellon Bypass	3·7
A92	Tipperty	2·2
A94	Candy to Stonehaven	3·0
1 Includes works, land and professional fees.

Start dates during the year, and hence likely expenditure in the year, are dependent on the completion of statutory procedures and monitoring of expenditure on schemes in progress. Depending on these factors, it might prove possible to bring some additional schemes into the programme for 1987–88.