Five more major road projects have been scrapped as part of the overall of schemes across the UK.

Having already cancelled the £350m A27 Arundel bypass and the £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge tunnel projects since coming to power in July, the government has now found more road building schemes that it considers to be poor value for money.

Projects ejected from the national roads programmes as part of the budget are:

A5036 Princess Way – Port of Liverpool access road (£335m estimated cost)

A358 Taunton to Southfields (£500m)

M27 J8 Southampton (£50m)

A1 Morpeth to Ellingham dualling (£390m)

A47 Great Yarmouth Vauxhall Roundabout (£50m).

Some national road schemes did survive the review, including dualling sections of the A47, where work has begun to improve connectivity between East Anglia and the north, and on the A57, where work will start in the coming weeks to improve journey times between Sheffield and Greater Manchester.