Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Road Investment Strategy: for the 2015-16 to 2019-20 Road Period, which of the projects announced have (a) been completed, (b) been cancelled, (c) faced changes to their completion date and (d) experienced increases in their costs; which of the projects (i) will be completed by 2020, (ii) will have started before 2020 and (iii) will neither have started nor be completed before or by 2020, broken down by region; and in which regions those projects have been conducted.
Highways England published their updated Delivery Plan 2017-2018 on the 19th October 17 which showed that 12 projects had been completed by 2016-2017. Since then a further 6 schemes have been completed giving a total of 18 schemes completed to date. The additional 6 schemes are:
A30 Temple to Carblake | South West |
M3 junctions 2-4a | South East and London |
A21 Tonbridge to Pembury | South East and London |
M5 junctions 4a-6 | Midlands |
A43 Abthorpe junction | Midlands |
A5/M1 junction 11a link | Midlands |
Information regarding the status of the other road schemes in the Road Investment Strategy can be found in the updated Delivery Plan at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/highways-england-delivery-plan-2017-to-2018 .
Any cost increases to specific schemes will be balanced across the overall capital investment programme.