HC Deb 20 December 1979 vol 976 cc399-400d W
Mr. Moate

asked the Minister of Transport if he will list in the Official Reportthe allocation of local transport expenditure which he has accepted for the purposes of transport supplementary grant for 1980–81; and if he will list the totals of transport supplementary grant.

Mr. Fowler

The rate support grant order at present before Parliament pro- vides for transport supplementary grant of £273 million for England at November 1978 prices—£319 million at today's prices. It assumes that councils will spend £959 million at November 1978 prices—£1,125 million at today's prices. Allocations to individual counties within these total figures are shown below.

Whilst I accept that counties' final spending patterns could be different from the pattern of their accepted expenditure, I would expect any additional spending to be counterbalanced by a reduction elsewhere in their budgets, in order to avoid jeopardising the Government's overall public expenditure objectives.

Accepted Expenditure—£million TSG—£ million
County Public Transport Revenue Support Highway Maintenance Other Current Capital Total November 1978 Prices Revalued to November 1979 Prices
Greater London … 48.389 71.844 1.841 110.316 232.390 103.055 120.231
Greater Manchester … 20.643 20.228 0.212 11.727 52.810 13.967 16.294
Merseyside … 19.300 15.067 0.280 6.058 40.705 15.168 17.696
Tyne and Wear … 13.700 12.155 0.035 5.887 31.777 12.199 14.232
South Yorkshire … 9.800 15.668 0.160 4.903 30.531 10.125 11.812
West Midlands … 12.000 24.724 0.266 11.338 48.328 10.435 12.174
West Yorkshire … 14.499 22.670 0.510 9.789 47.468 15.393 17.959
Total Mets. … 89.942 110.512 1.463 49.702 251.619 77.287 90.167
Avon … 1.250 8.713 0.264 3.041 13.268 1.332 1.554
Bedfordshire … 0.542 4.762 0.109 3.009 8.422 1.627 1.898
Berkshire … 0.800 5.575 -0.016 2.188 8.547 0.180 0.210
Buckinghamshire … 1.148 5.506 0.024 4.179 10.857 3.070 3.582
Cambridgeshire … 0.487 5.489 0.013 3.044 9.033 1.403 1.637
Cheshire … 2.529 9.435 0.144 2.973 15.081 2-620. 3.057
Cleveland … 1.038 5.623 0.040 4.912 11.613 3.228 3.766
Cornwall … 0.967 6.536 0.017 2.600 10.120 3.508 4.093
Cumbria … 1.331 7.021 0.098 1.495 9.945 2.894 3.376
Derbyshire … 2.302 9.363 0.170 2.676 14.511 2.425 2.829
Devon … 0.934 13.005 0.164 4.686 18.789 4-.974 5.804
Dorset … 0.845 5.816 0.017 4.107 10.785 2.490 2.905
Durham … 1.102 6.397 0.054 3.288 10.841 2.375 2.771
East Sussex … 1.404 6.408 0.131 2.426 10.369 1.628 1.899
Essex … 1.950 13.020 0.090 6.380 21.440 2.620 3.056
Gloucestershire … 0.532 5.070 0.041 1.327 6.970 0.605 0.705
Hampshire … 2.224 12.049 0.202 6.862 21.337 2.394 2.793
Hereford and Worcestershire … 0.628 6.981 0.056 2.864 10.529 2.106 2.458
Hertfordshire … 4.413 9.735 0.513 5.501 20.162 5.944 6.935
Humberside … 0.615 7.821 0.104 3.118 11.658 0.869 1.014
of Wight … 0.186 1.276 0.040 0.852 2.344 0.655 0.764

Accepted Expenditure—£ million TSG—£million
November 1978 prices
County Public Transport Revenue Support Highway Maintenance Other Current Capital Total November 1978 Prices Revalued to November 1979 Prices
Kent … … … 2.178 14.046 0.149 6.398 22.771 3.437 4.010
Lancashire … … … 2.742 14.635 0.033 8.687 26.097 6.453 7.528
Leicestershire … … … 1.000 8.585 0.060 1.728 11.373 0.769 0.897
Lincolnshire … … … 0.631 7.632 0.051 0.764 9.078 1.781 2.078
Norfolk … … … 0.605 7.343 0.085 1.789 9.822 1.009 1.177
Northants … … … 0.527 5.644 0.137 8.238 14.546 5.730 6.685
Northumberland … … … 0.480 5.350 0.068 1.264 7.162 2.519 2.939
North Yorkshire … … … 0.800 12.338 0.020 2.153 15.311 5.014 5.850
Nottinghamshire … … … 0.569 8.148 0.262 2.083 11.062 0.232 0.271
Oxon … … … 0.150 4.624 0.073 0.649 5.496 0.116 0.135
Salop … … … 0.399 4.925 0.064 1.135 6.523 1.409 1.644
Somerset … … … 0.220 5.622 0.018 2.263 8.123 2.140 2.496
Staffordshire … … … 1.710 9.283 0.027 5.719 16.739 3.115 3.634
Suffolk … … … 0.277 5.948 0.047 3.337 9.609 1.612 1.881
Surrey … … … 4.377 10.039 0.040 4.205 18.661 4.475 5.221
Warwickshire … … … 0.300 5.067 0.076 1.797 7.240 1.017 1.186
West Sussex … … … 1.332 6.476 0.032 3.094 10.934 2.187 2.552
Wiltshire … … … 0.477 4.878 0.207 2.261 7.823 1.022 1.192
Total Shires … … … 46.001 296.184 3.724 129.082 474.991 92.984 108.482
Total England … … … 184.332 478.540 7.028 289.100 959.000 273.326 318.880