The following Declarations of Interest were made:

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody, Member, Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen

Mr Brian H Donohoe, Clive Efford, Mrs Louise Ellman and Mr George Stevenson, Members of Transport and General Workers' Union

Mr Ian Lucas, and Mr Graham Stringer, Member, Amicus-MSF.

The Committee deliberated.

Draft Report (Local Roads and Pathways), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the Chairman's draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Summary agreed to.

Paragraphs 1 to 131 read and agreed to.

Annexs 1 and 2 agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Fifth Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.

Ordered, That the provisions of Standing Order No 134 be applied to the report

Ordered, That the Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee be reported to the House.

[Adjourned till Wednesday 25 June at a quarter to Four o'clock.