HL Deb 18 December 1989 vol 514 cc108-12WA
Baroness Blatch

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How much local highway authority expenditure they intend to accept for transport supplementary grant in 1990–91; what supplementary credit approvals and what level of annual capital guidelines they will be issuing for local roads expenditure.

Viscount Ullswater

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State has decided to accept £466 million of local authority highway expenditure for transport supplementary grant in 1990–91. Grant will be paid on this expenditure at a flat rate of 50 per cent. The total of £233 million TSG is nearly 15 per cent. higher than for 1989–90.

My right honourable friend has also decided to issue supplementary credit approvals of £50 million and total annual capital guidelines of £352 million, bringing coverage for local roads and parking for 1990-91 to £635 million. The capital allocation for 1989-90 is £513 million.

Seventy new major (over £1 million) schemes will be supported through TSG for the first time. Among these are the Birmingham Heartlands Spine Road; a major new link road from the M.57 to the A.562 in Merseyside; the Littlehampton Bypass; further stages of both the Avon Ring Road and the Leeds Inner Ring Road; as well as the Thornaby Bypass and the Beddington-Mitcham Relief Road; other important improvements in both urban and rural areas. Twenty-two of these schemes will directly assist inner cities.

Some 270 other major schemes will continue to receive TSG support, including 90 inner city areas. Most of these are alrady under construction or are due to start in the current financial year.

Local authorities have reported completion of 59 TSG-supported schemes costing £245 million in 1988–89 and a start of works on 65 such schemes costing £401 million. During 1989–90, they plan to complete a further 62 schemes costing £290 million and start 76 costing £538 million.

In deciding the distribution of transport supplementary grant for 1990–91, my right honourable friend has considered carefully the transport policies and programme document submitted by each local highway authority, and has looked at the extent to which authorities' programmes relate to roads of more than local importance. Many local authority roads —such as major urban roads and roads on the primary route network—carry significant amounts of through traffic, and thus complement the trunk road network. Improvements to such roads are important locally because they save lives, reduce congestion and relieve communities from the effects of through traffic. They are also of national benefit by aiding the efficient flow of goods, people and services. TSG reflects the national taxpayer's interest in helping local authorities to improve these roads.

My right honourable friend has also given special priority this year to schemes which will assist in the regeneration of our inner cities. New and improved roads are often crucial in unlocking inner city potential, either by removing through traffic from inner city streets thereby relieving congestion, increasing safety and improving the environment, or by providing high quality access to the motorway network for inner city industry and commerce.

Many smaller schemes on heavily trafficked roads produce very significant accident savings and other benefits. My right honourable friend has therefore also taken into account £38 million of expenditure on minor (under £1 million) schemes for grant in 1990–91.

Annual capital guidelines, together with supplementary credit approvals will provide local highway authorities with the necessary resources to meet the balance of their TSG accepted expenditure and to undertake a further wide range of improvements and expenditure to which TSG support does not extend.

The amount of expenditure accepted for TSG, the amount of grant, the annual capital guideline, and the supplementary credit approvals which the Government intend to issue for highway expenditure for each local highway authority are set out in the table below. Councils are being informed individually today of their own figures.

LOCAL AUTHORITY CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ON ROADS 1990/91
Metropolitan Districts
Authority Net Expenditure Accepted for TSG £m Transport Supplementary Gram £m Supplementary Credit Approvals £m Annual Capital Guideline £m
Bolton 2.684 1.342 0.000 1.945
Bury 1.698 0.849 0.000 1.315
Manchester 9.632 4.816 0.187 8.198
Oldham 1.228 0.614 0.000 2.443
Rochdale 0.378 0.189 0.000 1.036
Salford 5.096 2.548 0.000 3.882
Stockport 0.916 0.458 0.000 0.959
Tameside 0.806 0.403 0.000 1.438
Trafford 0.778 0.389 0.000 1.566
Wigan 1.744 0.872 0.000 2.065
Knowsley 1.792 0.896 0.000 1.397
Liverpool 1.500 0.750 0.000 2.506
St. Helens 5.882 2.941 0.340 3.007
Sefton 0.738 0.369 0.282 0.689
Wirral 0.900 0.450 0.220 1.299
Barnsley 3.148 1.574 0.132 2.142
Doncaster 1.414 0.707 0.000 1.897
Rotherham 2.486 1.243 0.000 1.908
Sheffield 11.092 5.546 0.270 6.191
Gateshead 1.944 0.972 0.000 1.991
Newcastle upon Tyne 0.124 0.062 0.000 2.920
North Tyneside 0.306 0.153 0.000 0.542
South Tyneside 1.400 0.700 0.000 1.242
Sunderland 1.694 0.847 0.000 3.033
Birmingham 15.790 7.895 0.744 9.811
Coventry 2.948 1.474 0.825 1.537
Dudley 1.150 0.575 0.000 2.272
Sandwell 1.504 0.752 0.000 2.672
Solihull 0.856 0.428 0.000 1.325
Walsall 5.502 2.751 2.693 0.490
Wolverhampton 5.684 2.842 2.111 1.748
Bradford 4.934 2.467 0.127 4.115
Calderdale 0.192 0.096 0.000 1.428
Kirklees 0.120 0.060 0.000 0.735
Leeds 5.264 2.632 0.088 3.876
Wakefield 0.314 0.157 0.000 2.457

LOCAL AUTHORITY CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ON ROADS 1990/91
Shire Counties
Authority Net Expenditure Accepted for TSG £m Transport Supplementary Grant £m Supplementary credit Approvals £m Annual Capital Guideline £m
Avon 13.428 6.714 0.491 7.230
Bedfordshire 5.182 2.591 0.132 3.659
Berkshire 3.764 1.882 0.239 5.723
Buckinghamshire 2.306 1.153 0.000 2.087
Cambridgeshire 3.864 1.932 0.000 4.316
Cheshire 8.308 4.154 0.000 6.174
Cleveland 10.884 5.442 0.000 6.351
Cornwall 5.594 2.797 0.000 4.670
Cumbria 4.652 2.326 0.000 3.326
Derbyshire 1.164 0.582 0.000 4.353
Devon 6.788 3.394 0.407 7.622
Dorset 5.732 2.866 0.000 4.544
Durham 4.820 2.410 0.000 2.932
East Sussex 6.142 3.071 0.660 5.082
Essex 13.372 6.686 0.373 11.533
Gloucestershire 3.866 1.933 0.000 3.215
Hampshire 15.278 7.639 5.910 4.274
Hereford and Worcester 2.676 1.338 0.000 2.585
Hertfordshire 6.050 3.025 0.000 4.700
Humberside 10.624 5.312 0.000 7.677
Isle of Wight 0.828 0.414 0.000 1.202
Kent 2.5100 12.550 9.853 8.869
Lancashire 25.746 12.873 0.000 16.496
Leicestershire 6.094 3.047 0.081 4.477
Lincolnshire 3.148 1.574 0.000 2.481
Norfolk 11.346 5.673 2.889 4.428
Northamptonshire 5.698 2.849 0.000 5.115
Northumberland 2.962 1.481 0.000 2.265
North Yorkshire 6.888 3.444 0.000 4.909
Nottinghamshire 3.828 1.914 0.000 3.986
Oxfordshire 4.924 2.462 0.000 5.352
Shropshire 3.132 1.566 0.000 3.540
Somerset 6.312 3.156 0.000 4.486
Staffordshire 5.826 2.913 0.000 4.390
Suffolk 6.374 3.187 0.000 5.782
Surrey 12.660 6.330 2.746 6.359
Warwickshire 0.984 0.492 0.328 2.112
West Sussex 9.064 4.532 0.000 6.045
Wiltshire 5.970 2.985 0.000 4.714

LOCAL AUTHORITY CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ON ROADS 1990/91
London Boroughs
Authority Net Expenditure Accepted for TSG £m Transport Supplementary Grant£m Supplementary Credit Approvals £m Annual Capital Guideline £m
City of London 0.202 0.101 0.000 0.461
Barking and Dagenham 3.496 1.748 0.000 3.622
Barnet 0.322 0.161 0.000 0.571
Bexley 4.268 2.134 0.000 2.869
Brent 0.014 0.007 0.000 0.736
Bromley 7.668 3.834 0.000 4.328
Camden 0.378 0.189 0.000 1.095
Croydon 1.776 0.888 0.000 1.890
Ealing 4.858 2.429 1.710 3.592
Enfield 9.762 4.881 6.480 0.429
Greenwich 0.038 0.019 0.000 1.149
Hackney 0.372 0.186 0.000 0.791
Hammersmith and Fulham 0.296 0.148 0.000 1.303
Haringey 5.442 2.721 2.780 0.661
Harrow 6.428 3.214 0.000 5.668
Havering 0.430 0.215 0.000 0.568
Hillingdon 5.484 2.742 4.917 2.297
Hounslow 0.558 0.279 0.279 0.540
Islington 0.336 0.168 0.000 0.549
Kensington and Chelsea 0.570 0.285 0.000 0.694
Kingston upon Thames 1.132 0.566 0.000 1.881
Lambeth 0.308 0.154 0.000 0.280
Lewisham 3.974 1.987 0.000 3.081
Merton 14.200 7.100 1.150 7.282
Newham 3.582 1.791 0.000 2.869
Redbridge 0.268 0.134 0.000 0.598
Richmond upon Thames 0.344 0.172 0.000 0.633
Southwark 0.498 0.249 0.000 1.701
Sutton 1.180 0.590 0.000 3.168
Tower Hamlets 0.182 0.091 0.000 1.007
Waltham Forest 0.112 0.056 0.000 0.726
Wandsworth 2.022 1.011 0.000 3.429
Westminster 0.734 0.367 0.000 4.589