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ROAD EXPENDITURE

5th March 1954, Page 39
5th March 1954
Page 39
Page 39, 5th March 1954 — ROAD EXPENDITURE
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A BOUT £151m. is to be spent on 1-1 roads during the next three years. By 1957-58 the level of El4im. is expected to be reached, and it is hoped to maintain that expenditure for some

years. Maintenance will be increased by 13 per cent. next year.

• Mr. Hugh Molson, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, gave these figures on Tuesday. Criticism of the scale of proposed expenditure was due partly to misunderstanding of the difference between commitments and payments. Whereas the final payment would not be made until after the work was completed, commitment was the Ministry's promise to make its full contribution.