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26th November 1983
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SCOTLAND'S trunk road I gramme could be reduced d tically as a result of Government's public expe ture White Paper published week.

As the Scottish Office rece a block grant for all expendit and the health service for stance is likely to comm more funds then the already developed road network, rc expenditure will probably sul In England, the Departmer Transport is planning to sp more on capital projects 1984/85 than on current expE ture projects like road main ance, and spending on national roads system will from £715m to £800m.

Capital spending by I( authorities will rise from £7: to £850m, details of which be given with the Trans Supplementary Grant sei ments next month.

The 12 per cent increas spending on the national network is expected to incri new road building motorway renewal, althougf tails have still to be given.

The DTp reports that it s 97.1 per cent of the anticip expenditure in the first ha this year, and that this "e: lent" progress means that E schemes scheduled for 198 completion will be finished year. Another nine are ahez schedule, and at least 14 rr contracts will be let at the 13( fling of the construction sea:

• Strathclyde Regional Co' is planning to spend £217r highways in 1984-89, £4m Gorbals relief road schem Glasgow which is a replacer for the now abandoned s flank of the M8 inner ring rot • The Greater London Co transport committee was pected this week to appro £22.3m scheme for a 1.8 Docklands northern relief which will by-pass the East Dock Road.

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Organisations: Scottish Office
Locations: Glasgow

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