Derek McDowell (Labour)

The Minister tells us with certainty that we will have a national road network. A commitment was made in this respect in the last plan and those improvements should already be in place. The reality is that we have approximately one third of a national motorway network.

Perhaps we have learned much in the last ten years but there was clearly an awful lot to be learned. The Minister must, if he is reasonable, accept that it is not unreasonable for Opposition Members to say we are sceptical that he can do in the next six years what he did not in the last six years.

I will now return to my script.