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A120: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the cost-benefit ratio for the proposed A120 dualling scheme.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 5 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 11 Nov 2025
Answer: 14 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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5 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the cost-benefit ratio for the proposed A120 dualling scheme.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department’s most recent formal assessment of the value for money (VfM) and benefit cost ratio (BCR) for the proposed A120 Braintree to A12 scheme was completed in February 2022. Five options were assessed at the time, and the BCRs of each ranged from...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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