I am sure that Mark Griffin will accept that, as far as central Government spending is concerned, that priority, leading to a 28 per cent increase in maintenance spending on the trunk roads, in the face of the extraordinary austerity programme from Labour and Tory central Government, is no mean achievement, and that the figures demonstrate that our priority is not just to build new roads through the great non-profit distributing programme but to maintain the existing trunk roads and bring about some of the improvements that we both want to see.