Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects construction of the Arundel bypass announced in his Department's Road Investment Strategy published on 1 December 2014 to (a) begin and (b) be completed.

Details of the next steps on the proposed schemes that were confirmed in the feasibility studies, which included the A27, are set out in the Highways England Delivery Plan, which has been published today and is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/highways-england-delivery-plan-2015-2020

As a first step, during 2015 Highways England proposes to develop and assess a range of options to inform consultation with stakeholders on the A27 bypasses at Arundel and Worthing/Lancing. Recommendations on the preferred routes for these schemes will be made thereafter.