To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much money has been spent on road schemes, not including maintenance, since 1960; and whether he will express this in terms of the current value of the pound.
Total capital expenditure by central Government on national roads in the United Kingdorn 1960–61 to 1989–90 amounts to about £15 billion, or £35 billion when expressed in 1989–90 prices. These figures should be treated as approximations, since there have been definitional changes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what information he has on the number of (a) properties and (b) homes that have been demolished as a result of road schemes since 1960;(2) what information he has on the acreage of
(a) agricultural land and (b) other land taken out of use (i) permanently and (ii) temporarily as a result of road schemes since 1960.
Information is not held in the form requested, and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.