To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether consultants he appointed to study the A27 in the Worthing areas have examined the feasibility of the Findon Gap route in the same detail as the route which they have recommended.

[holding answer 4 July 1988]: Yes. More detailed drawings of their recommended route, as well as of the on-line improvement option at Lancing, were drawn up by the consultants because of the need to assess the effect on homes in the urban area.