Roads Budget

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 February 1994.

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Photo of Alan Duncan Alan Duncan , Rutland and Melton 12:00, 21 February 1994

I confess that I am somewhat taken aback by that reply, because I was going to put in a special plea for the Oakham bypass in Rutland. Does not my right hon. Friend's reply show that whereas 90 per cent. of journeys are undertaken by road, nearly half of his Department's spending is on public transport? Will he undertake to trumpet that statistic rather widely and use it to confound those critics who try to argue that the Government do not spend enough on public transport?