§ Mr. Woodburnasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what allocations of grants for Highland roads have been announced as being available in each year since 1945; to what extent these sums have, in fact, been expended in grants, or allocated to the purpose intended; what amounts remained or remain unspent; and what is the position with regard to such unspent sums.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThe figures for grants allocated for Highland roads since 1945–46 are set out in the following table:
Maintenance, etc. Improvement, etc. 1945–46 … … 115,552 19,882 1946–47 … … 289,832 14,164 1947–48 … … 300,300 207,912 1948–49 … … 246,648 959,626 1949–50 … … 300,129 50,107 1950–51 … … 369,053 261,167 1951–52 … … 419,564 81,922 1952–53 … … 481,050 — 1953–54 … … 578,445 373,966 1954–55 … … 630,235 167,469 For the figures of payments against those grants since 1951–52, I would ask the right hon. Gentleman to await the information I shall be circulating shortly in response to his Question on 14th June, which will also explain the relation between grants, which are promises to pay, and Exchequer payments against these grants. Figures of payments for earlier years are not available in the form requested.