Current status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 7 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money has been allocated for improvements to trunk roads during this parliamentary session.
The allocation for the trunk roads network, including investment in new construction, improvements and routine maintenance, is £774 million between 1999 and 2003. This does not include capital charges and other adjustments made as a result of the introduction of resource accounting and budgeting from April 2001. A more detailed breakdown is shown in the Executive's Annual Expenditure Reports, copies of which are held by the Parliament's Reference Centre.