Roads: Construction
(asked on 27th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 8 June 2015 (HL105), what trunk road improvement schemes there have been in the last five years, and for each of those, what was (1) the original target cost, and (2) the estimated completed cost.
The table below provides details of the major scheme on trunk roads opened in the last five financial years (from April 2011 to the present), together with the original target cost and latest outturn forecast (to the end of December 2015, and subject to closure of final accounts):
Scheme Name | Date Opened | Original Target Cost (£m) | Outturn Forecast* (£m) |
A3 Hindhead | Jul-11 | 362.5m | 371.9m |
A1 Dishforth to Leeming | Mar-12 | 327.5m | 312.0m |
A46 Newark to Widmerpool | Mar-12 | 382.9m | 379.3m |
A23 Handcross to Warninglid | Oct-14 | 76.9m | 77.9m |
A11 Fiveways to Thetford | Dec-14 | 104.7m | 99.6m |
A14 Kettering Bypass | Apr-15 | 41.9m | 37.5m |
A453 Widening | Jul-15 | 149.7m | 164.5m |
| Totals | 1,446.1m | 1,442.7m |