To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what improvements to the A13 between the North Circular road and Butcher row are currently being undertaken; at what cost; and when they will be completed.

Departmental schemes currently under construction are:

Scheme	Works cost £ million	Estimated date of completion
Leamouth Road Junction Interim Scheme	2·0	Mid 1991
West India Dock Road Junction Advance statutory undertaker's works	3·1	Late 1991

The following schemes are due to start this year:

Scheme	Works cost £ million	Estimated date of completion
West India Dock Road Junction phase 1	1·2	Spring 1992
Canning Town Flyover/Ironbridge widening Advanced Works phase 1 Bridge over A102	0·5	Late 1991

Other schemes in preparation are:

	Works cost £ million	Estimated date of completion
Cotton Street/Blackwall Tunnel	3·5	1994
West India Dock Road Junction phase 2	0·6	1993
Butcher Row Junction	0·7	1993
Canning Town Flyover/Ironbridge widening Advance works phase 2	9·2	1993
Canning Town Flyover/Ironbridge widening	21·0	1997
A13/A112 Junction Improvement	44·4	1996
A13/A117 Junction Improvment	35·6	1995

Progress on some of these schemes will be dependent on the completion of statutory processes which could be subject to public inquiry. Completion dates are therefore provisional.