Five road schemes scrapped in Autumn Budget

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Costain and Vinci involved in schemes worth £1.3bn in total

achel Reeves has scrapped five road schemes in her first Budget as chancellor.

In another blow to civil engineers, the Budget revealed that a set of schemes, together worth an estimated £1.3bn, had failed to pass value for money tests and would not now proceed.

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