“While serious cuts are still being made to public expenditure, it is more
important, not less, that value for money is achieved and the evidence for this
can be understood and audited by the public at large as well as interested
organisations.”

http://www.mtru.com/mtru%20publications/Strategic%20transport%20SM%20EChesh.pdf

Cheadle Constituency Link Road for votes – pork barrel politics:- http://www.politicshome.com/uk/story/36543/

“Danny Alexander personally intervened to ensure approval of a £300m road project in a marginal Lib Dem constituency, the Financial Times has claimed…”