My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Chris Mole) has made the following Ministerial Statement.

The Highways Agency’s business plan target for the programme of national schemes in the development phase, contained in the Highways Agency business plan 2009-10 has been revised so as to remove the following target at Annex B:

Major Projects—Development: For the programme of national schemes in the development phase, progress these projects by an average of at least 37 percentage points through this phase.

This has been replaced with the following target:

Major Projects—Development: For the programme of national schemes in the development phase, progress these projects by an average of at least 35.7 percentage points through this phase.