Cash cutback for Britain's roads
9th November 1989, Page 6
9th November 1989
Page 6
Page 6, 9th November 1989
— Cash cutback for Britain's roads
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• Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson has scaled down plans to improve Britain's road building programme, because insufficient cash has been made available.
Tory MPs fear that widening the Ml, M6 and M25 to four lanes will have to wait until after the next general election. Details of next year's spending round will be unveiled next week in the autumn economic statement by Chancellor John Major, following negotiations between Treasury Chief Secretary Norman Lamont, and the various ministers.
At Westminster last week, Parkinson told MPs: —che expanded building programme set out in Roads for Prosperity is one of the Government's priorities."