§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Minister of Transport if he will provide a table showing in November 1978 prices the total transport and policies programme, base programme bids for English counties, the total expenditure accepted by Government, the proportion of the bid accepted and the transport supplementary grant paid for each year since 1975–76.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe total local transport expenditure accepted for transport supplementary grant—TSG—purposes, and the grant paid, for each year since 1975–76 was as follows:
£ million November 1978 prices Accepted expenditure (England) TSG 1975–76 1,482 426 1976–77 1,337 386 1977–78 1,034 294 1978–79 982 277 1979–80 1,026 289 The 1980–81 TSG settlement is not due until December. The figures for the years before 1979–80 must be treated with reservation because of the increasing artificiality inherent in each revaluation from earlier price bases.
As regards the further information sought by my hon. Friend, I refer him to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Newport (Mr. Hughes) on 31 October 1979.—[Vol. 972, c. 547.]