HC Deb 01 February 1988 vol 126 cc517-21W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list in theOfficial Report for each highway authority in England (a) its bid for capital allocation and transport supplementary grant for 1988–89, (b) the allocation announced in each case, (c) the allocation as a percentage of the bid in each case, (d) the percentage of each authority's transport supplementary grant allocation attributable to minor works, for 1987–88 and 1988–89.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

The capital allocations figures were given in my reply to the hon. Member for Burnley (Mr. Pike) on 11 January at columns139–40. The figures for transport supplementary grant are in the following table:

Authority (a) (b) (c) (d)(i) (d)(ii)
Bid 1988–89 (£ million) Accepted expenditure 1988–89 (£ million) Accepted expenditure 1988–89 as percentage of bid Minor works accepted expenditure as percentage of total net accepted expenditure 1987–88 Minor works accepted expenditure as percentage of total net accepted expenditure 1988–89
Waltham Forest 1.442 0.988 68.5 25.1 88.1
Wandsworth 4.533 1.108 24.4 14.0 41.3
Westminster 5.280 0.420 8.0 43.3 100.0
Bolton 3.929 2.686 68.4 0.0 10.8
Bury 2.774 2.020 72.8 84.5 24.8
Manchester 10.353 6.290 60.8 24.0 22.2
Oldham 3.441 2.240 65.1 100.0 24.1
Rochdale 1.268 0.570 45.0 100.0 100.0
Salford 11.411 7.692 67.4 6.0 3.9
Stockport 0.687 0.360 52.4 103.9 111.1
Tameside 1.187 0.620 52.2 8.12 56.3
Trafford 2.689 1.284 47.8 5.5 45.5
Wigan 4.971 4.630 93.1 7.1 8.6
Knowsley 0.974 0.484 49.7 89.5 91.9
Liverpool 4.180 2.470 59.1 19.9 34.2
St. Helens 1.646 1.270 77.2 100.0 26.9
Sefton 1.779 0.342 19.2 100.0 94.2
Wirral 2.785 2.460 88.3 50.3 12.1
Barnsley 1.862 0.800 43.0 29.7 54.4
Doncaster 1.457 0.942 64.7 58.4 52.5
Rotherham 0.685 0.446 65.1 83.8 100.0
Sheffield 7.935 0.760 9.6 16.4 100.5
Gateshead 4.570 3.990 87.3 62.5 9.8
Newcastle upon Tyne 8.168 4.570 56.0 7.6 10.0
North Tyneside 1.262 0.760 60.2 100.0 100.0
South Tyneside 3.065 0.720 23.5 16.2 30.6
Sunderland 6.128 3.154 51.5 25.0 19.2
Birmingham 15.788 7.806 49.4 12.8 16.7
Coventry 5.534 3.884 70.2 7.7 6.5
Dudley 5.662 1.384 24.4 19.5 36.2
Sandwell 3.917 1.834 46.8 33.7 19.1
Solihull 1.394 1.020 73.2 27.3 14.7
Walsall 5.669 3.156 55.7 18.2 7.9
Wolverhampton 8.061 6.922 85.9 5.3 5.1
Bradford 4.510 3.372 74.8 4.6 21.4
Calderdale 0.546 0.420 76.9 100.0 100.0
Kirklees 3.317 2.638 79.5 18.1 13.7
Leeds 3.928 3.046 77.5 63.3 24.4
Wakefield 2.006 0.526 26.2 100.0 98.9
Avon 12.482 8.612 69.0 30.4 10.5
Bedfordshire 7.717 6.498 84.2 1.9 5.7
Berkshire 10.041 5.376 53.5 4.8 5.6
Buckinghamshire 2.441 1.414 57.9 0.8 4.2
Cambridgeshire 10.817 4.510 41.7 7.3 2.8
Cheshire 4.764 2.728 57.3 21.0 14.7
Cleveland 10.126 6.324 62.5 13.3 6.3
Cornwall 6.606 4.540 68.7 13.5 8.8
Cumbria 3.579 2.800 78.2 80.6 17.9
Derbyshire 4.836 1.366 28.2 76.6 77.8
Devon 11.932 7.002 58.7 12.6 8.6
Dorset 17.464 8.640 49.5 1.9 5.8
Durham 7.547 3.876 51.4 8.5 19.6
East Sussex 9.131 4.242 46.5 57.1 14.1
Essex 21.519 17.460 81.1 6.8 5.0
Gloucestershire 5.229 2.154 41.2 8.0 13.9
Hampshire 10.683 8.230 77.0 7.1 7.9
Hereford & Worcester 5.501 3.952 71.8 14.8 17.7
Hertfordshire 8.310 6.190 74.5 2.8 5.5
Humberside 10.989 9.036 82.2 12.7 6.6
Isle of Wight 3.449 1.454 42.2 62.3 69.I
Kent 28.174 18.510 65.7 12.9 5.4
Lancashire 22.146 9.366 42.3 10.2 14.4
Leicestershire 15.436 9.890 64.1 3.2 5.9
Lincolnshire 3.682 2.278 61.9 25.4 53.3
Norfolk 7.350 4.300 58.5 15.1 23.7
Northamptonshire 11.180 6.470 57.9 5.1 19.3
Northumberland 2.629 1.088 41.4 3.5 34.9
North Yorkshire 5.049 3.850 76.3 5.6 22.1
Nottinghamshire 5.563 4.074 73.2 18.1 17.2
Oxfordshire 7.013 1.426 20.3 28.2 35.0
Shropshire 6.797 3.500 51.5 3.9 5.7
Somerset 9.585 6.422 67.0 7.8 4.7

Authority (a) (b) (c) (d)(i) (d)(ii)
Bid 1988–89 (£ million) Accepted expenditure 1988–89 (£ million) Accepted expenditure 1988–89 as percentage of bid Minor works accepted expenditure as percentage of total net accepted expenditure 1987–88 Minor works accepted expenditure as percentage of total net accepted expenditure 1988–89
Staffordshire 9.909 5.644 57.0 14.1 17.7
Suffolk 4.572 3.506 76.7 33.5 17.5
Surrey 9.642 4.472 46.4 6.5 13.4
Warwickshire 4.918 3.492 71.0 8.6 8.6
West Sussex 7.429 5.460 73.5 7.3 8.2
Wiltshire 3.390 0.722 21.3 3.5 55.4

Note: Transport Supplementary Grant is paid at the rate of 50 per cent. of accepted expenditure.