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M40

Volume 184: debated on Monday 21 January 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give the total outturn cost of the M40 Waterstock to Umberslade, including the A43 Wendlebury-North Oxford and the widening of the M40 in the Chilterns (a) for preparation, design and supervision, (b) construction and contract costs and (c) land and compensation costs.

Outturn figures are not yet available. Total expenditure to date on the M40 Waterstock to Umberslade section, the Peartree Hill to Wendlebury section of A43 (now A34) and the widening of the M40 under each of the headings requested are:

  • (a) £41·11 million.
  • (b) £434·70 million.
  • (c) £11·38 million.