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Similar information was not available from Nottingham East Midlands Airport. However, the number of movements between the hours of 2300 and 0700 for each calendar year from 2001 to 2005 are shown in the following table.
| Total number of movements 2300-0700 | ||||
| Gatwick | Heathrow | Stansted | NEMA | |
The Government's policy remains as set out in the White Paper, namely that control of nuisance due to operational noise from aircraft should, so far as practical, be determined locally. It is not guaranteed that s.78 regulation would lead to tougher controls or movements limits.
Railways
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the total expenditure on upgrading and improving the West Coast Mainline was in each of the last 20 years. [93658]
Mr. Tom Harris: The forecast outturn cost of the West Coast Route Modernisation Project, which started in 1998 and to be completed by early 2009, is £8.125 billion.
Up to early 2003, when the SRA became actively involved with this project (and now the Department for Transport) a total of £3.186 billion had been committed to the Project. Since then, expenditure has been some £1.574 billion in 2003-04, £1.210 billion in 2004-05 and £850 million in 2005-06. The balance (£1.305 billion) is being spent up to completion of the Project.
The Department does not have figures of work carried out previously to modernise the line in the 1970s and earlier, under the aegis of the then British Railways Board.
Transport Infrastructure
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what total (a) Government and (b) private funding for transport infrastructure was in each of the last 30 years at today's prices; and what projected spending is for the next three years. [93668]
Gillian Merron: Data on Government and private funding for transport infrastructure in Great Britain are shown in the following table; it is available from 1985-86 only. There are no data available for projected spending on transport infrastructure.
A split by public and private funding is not available for rail and ports infrastructure.
Further information on transport funding can be found in Tables 1.14 and 1.15 in “Transport Statistics Great Britain” on the DfT website at www.dft.gov.uk.
| Public and private funding for transport infrastructure, 1985-86 to 2004-05 | |||||||||
| £ million | |||||||||
| 1985-86 | 1986-87 | 1987-88 | 1988-89 | 1989-90 | 1990-91 | 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | |
| Public and private funding for transport infrastructure, 1985-86 to 2004-05 | |||||||||
| £ million | |||||||||
| 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | |
| (1) Investment in NATS switched from public to private funding between 2000-01 and 2001-02. | |||||||||
Trunk Roads (Northamptonshire)
Mr. Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans the Government have to build new trunk roads in Northamptonshire in the next 10 years. [94363]
Dr. Ladyman: As the hon. Gentleman is aware, the Regional Spatial Strategy for the East Midlands (RSS 8), published in 2005, provides a broad development strategy for the region up to 2021.
The Regional Transport Strategy included within RSS 8 does not contain any proposals for building new trunk roads in Northamptonshire in the next 10 years.
However, RSS 8 does include improvements to existing trunk roads scheduled for the next 10 years, namely the A14 Kettering Bypass and the A45 Stanwick to Thrapston Improvement.
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