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Motorways/Trunk Roads

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the total length is of UK (a) motorways and (b) trunk roads; and how many miles of each were built in each year since 1997. [460]

Dr. Ladyman: Roads in Scotland and Wales are the responsibility of the Scottish Executive and the National Assembly for Wales respectively. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is responsible for motorway building in Northern Ireland. There is no designation of trunk roads in Northern Ireland.

The English road network currently comprises 1,833 miles of motorway and 3,096 miles of all-purpose trunk roads.

The major schemes (costing more than £5 million) completed on the trunk road network from 1997 to date, and their approximate length, are shown in the tables. Some of the roads listed have since been detrunked, or have become the responsibility of the Greater London authority.

The road schemes represent improvements rather than necessarily additions to the length of the trunk road network. For example, some represent road widening schemes and some bypasses of routes which are detrunked on completion of the bypass.

All purpose trunk road	Scheme description	Date of completion	Length (miles)
A69	Newcastle—Carlisle (DBFO)	May 1997	2.2
A13	Thames Avenue—Wennington	June 1997	4.8
A50	Blythe Bridge—Queensway Phase I	June 1997	3.1
A564	Derby Southern Bypass and Derby Spur Contract A	September 1997	16.9
A50	Blythe Bridge—Queensway Phase II	November 1997	0.8
A417/A419	Stratton Bypass (DBFO)	December 1997	6.4
A417/A419	Latton Bypass (DBFO)	December 1997	3.5
A406	Silver Street—Fore Street Imp, LB Enfield	Late 1997	0.6
Total 1997	—	—	38.3
A417/A419	Nettleton Improvement (DBFO)	January 1998	4.1
A50/A564	Stoke—Derby Link (DBFO)	March 1998	4.8
A16	Market Deeping/Deeping St. James Bypass	July 1998	4.0
A19/A168	Dishforth—Tyne Tunnel (DBFO)	September 1998	4.3
A13	Wennington—Mar Dyke	October 1998	2.0
A12	Hackney Wick—M11 Contract II	November 1998	1.5
A34	Newbury Bypass	November 1998	8.3
Total 1998	—	—	29.0
A30/A35	Puddleton Bypass (DBFO)	April 1999	5.6
A12	Hackney Wick—M11 Contract 1	August 1999	0.9
A12	Hackney Wick—M11 Contract 4	August 1999	1.1
A564	Derby Southern Bypass Contract B	August 1999	0.5
A12	Hackney Wick—M11 Contract 3	October 1999	0.5
A13	West of Heathway—Thames Avenue	December 1999	1.7
Total 1999	—	—	10.3
A30/A35	Honiton—Exeter (DBFO)	April 2000	13.7
Total 2000	—	—	13.7
A1	Tempsford Junction Improvements	October 2001	2.2
Total 2001	—	—	2.2
A27	Polegate Bypass	June 2002	1.8
A43	Silverstone Bypass	September 2002	5.0
A43	Whitfield Turn—Brackley Hatch Improvement	September 2002	2.8
A43	M40—B4031 Dualling	September 2002	4.0
A6	Clapham Bypass	December 2002	3.1
A66	Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass	December 2002	2.4
Total 2002	—	—	19.1
A6	Great Glen Bypass	February 2003	3.5
A1	Willburn—Denwick Improvement (DBFO)	March 2003	2.6
A11	Roudham Heath—Attleborough Improvement	March 2003	6.2
A5	Nesscliffe Bypass	March 2003	2.8
A500	Basford, Hough, Shavington Bypass	May 2003	4.7
A46	Newark—Lincoln Improvement	July 2003	8.0
A6	Rothwell—Desborough Bypass	August 2003	3.7
A6	Rushden and Higham Ferrers Bypass	August 2003	3.4
A41	Aston Clinton Bypass	October 2003	4.0
A1033	Hedon Road Improvement	November 2003	4.2
A6	Alvaston Bypass	December 2003	1.4
A650	Bingley Relief Road	December 2003	3.1
Total 2003	—	—	47.5
A63	Selby Bypass	June 2004	6.1
A120	Stansted—Braintree Improvement	July 2004	14.9
A34	Chieveley M4 J13 Improvement	September 2004	1.9
A1	Stannington Junction	October 2004	0.0
A10	Wadesmill Colliers End	October 2004	4.7
A2	Bean-Cobham Phase I	December 2004	3.7
Total 2004	—	—	31.3
A21	Lamberhurst Bypass	March 2005	1.6
A64	Colton Lane Grade Separated Junction	June 2005	0.0
Total 2005	—	—	1.6

 
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Motorway	Scheme description	Date of completion	Length (miles)
A1(M)	Walshford-Dishforth	May 1997	13.0
M25	J8–10 Widening	September 1997	12.4
M1/M621	Link Roads	October 1997	0.4
M65	Blackburn Southern Bypass Contract I	December 1997	5.5
M65	Blackburn Southern Bypass Contract II	December 1997	5.5
M66	Denton—Middleton Contract II (Junction)	December 1997	0.0
Total 1997	—	—	36.8
M5	J18–19 Widening	July 1998	2.1
A1(M)	Alconbury—Peterborough (DBFO	October 1998	12.9
M40	M40 Denham—Warwick (DBFO) J1A-J3	December 1998	7.5
Total 1998	—	—	22.5
M1-A1	Lofthouse—Bramham Link Road (DBFO)	May 1999	18.6
Total 1999	—	—	18.6
M66	Denton—Middleton Contract I	October 2000	3.7
M66	Denton—Middleton Contract III	October 2000	5.6
Total 2000	—	—	9.3
A2/M2	Cobham to Junction 4 Widening	July 2003	10.6
M6	Toll	December 2003	26.8
Total 2003	—	—	37.4

 
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Ports

Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) if he will issue guidelines for the ports industry on preparing proposals to increase port capacity; [6896]

(2) if he will establish a sequential test for ports planning which takes into account (a) environmental sustainability, (b) regeneration and (c) the impact on the local economy of port development; [6897]

(3) what plans he has to integrate port development into a sustainable transport strategy for the UK; [6898]

(4) what his latest estimate is of how much additional port capacity will be required in the UK over the next (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 15 years; [6899]

(5) what assessment he has made of comparative (a) environmental impact and (b) impact on productivity of port expansion proposals. [6900]

Dr. Ladyman: The forthcoming review of ports policy will address questions around port capacity and future port development. As part of the preparatory work for the review, the Department has commissioned consultants to produce national port traffic forecasts for Great Britain through to 2030. These forecasts will be disaggregated by region and traffic type, and will be published as part of the review.
 
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The Department issued guidance on new port developments in April 2003. A Project Appraisal Framework for Ports" aims to assist promoters of, those affected by, and others who may wish to make representations about, port developments. In arriving at decisions on these developments, the factors that have been considered will be made clear at the time those decisions are made.

The review will also look at wider issues, including environmental factors, local regeneration, productivity, and the role of ports in our overall transport strategy.

Honours

Mr. Pope: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many officials currently in the Department received honours in the recent Queen's Birthday Honours List; and at what rank of honour. [6117]

Ms Buck: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 22 June 2005, Official Report, column 1060W.

Rail Passengers

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many traffic movements there are on average each day between South Preston and North Warrington on the M6. [6637]

Dr. Ladyman: The average number of vehicles using the M6 between junction 30, in the vicinity of South Preston, and junction 21, in the vicinity of North Warrington, on each weekday in 2004, is provided in the table.
Average 24 hour traffic volumes—2004

Location	Direction	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
J21 to 21A	Northbound	67,307	69,490	70,604	72,684	77,449	55,027	53,004
	Southbound	64,889	64,980	64,940	65,499	66,281	51,092	54,905
	Comb.	132,196	134,470	135,544	138,183	143,730	106,119	107,909
J21A to J22	Northbound	42,801	44,309	45,184	46,671	48,746	34,829	32,605
	Southbound	52,631	52,603	52,628	53,273	54,343	38,131	42,217
	Comb.	95,432	96,912	97,812	99,944	103,089	72,960	74,822
J22 to J23	Northbound	47,706	49,399	50,845	40,725	49,893	32,592	29,608
	Southbound	51,683	51,088	51,615	50,128	53,284	34,693	38,629
	Comb.	99,389	100,487	102,460	90,853	103,177	67,285	68,237
J23 to J24	Northbound	52,810	52,645	52,805	53,570	55,372	38,545	42,638
	Southbound	51,461	53,325	54,315	56,856	63,057	41,816	37,579
	Comb.	104,271	105,970	107,120	110,426	118,429	80,361	80,217
J25 to J26	Northbound	48,828	50,335	51,417	53,260	59,193	39,973	36,666
	Southbound	51,120	50,648	50,815	51,734	53,671	38,170	42,946
	Comb.	99,948	100,983	102,232	104,994	112,864	78,143	79,612
J27 to J28	Northbound	43,710	44,468	45,725	47,086	53,509	36,117	32,604
	Southbound	45,281	44,098	44,476	44,534	46,118	30,051	36,349
	Comb.	88,991	88,566	90,201	91,620	99,627	66,168	68,953
J28 to J29	Northbound	47,466	48,722	49,908	51,487	58,968	39,140	34,347
	Southbound	47,868	47,011	47,965	48,287	50,756	35,853	40,414
	Comb.	95,334	95,733	97,873	99,774	109,724	74,993	74,761
J29 to J30	Northbound	39,934	39,274	39,461	40,762	47,940	32,487	30,101
	Southbound	39,889	38,943	38,972	39,160	41,456	30,084	34,895
	Comb.	79,823	78,217	78,433	79,922	89,396	62,571	64,996

 
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