Motorways: Repairs and Maintenance

Mrs. Villiers
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.

Paul Clark
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.

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