Motorways: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles of new (a) motorway and (b) motorway widening were completed in each of the last 10 years. (227087)

The following table shows (a) the number of miles of new motorway and (b) the number of miles of motorway widened in each year since 1998.

	(a) New motorway	(b) Motorway widened
1998	0.0	22.7
1999	9.3	18.5
2000	0.0	9.3
2001	0.0	0.0
2002	0.0	0.0
2003	0.0	6.6
2004	0.0	0.0
2005	0.0	13.4
2006	10.6	19.4
2007	0.0	1.2
Total	19.9	91.2

Volume 481: debated on Tuesday 28 October 2008