§ Mr. AltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his replies to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill of 10 July, how much money has been allocated to Liverpool city council for road schemes in each of the last five years; and what information he has on how that money has been spent.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyLiverpool city council became a highway authority in 1986. Transport supplementary grant paid in support of its accepted programme of highway improvements in the four years since then has been as follows:
£ million 1986–87 2.702 1987–88 2.267 1988–89 1.235 1989–90 1.762 Expenditure details from Liverpool's 1988 transport policies and programme document are as follows:
£ thousand Scheme 1986–87 actual outturn 1987–88 estimated outturn 1988–89 budgeted outturn A59 Hunter Street improvement 3,230 2,443 1,634 A580 Everton Valley improvement 738 434 628 Liverpool inner ring road 523 9 167 A561 Garston bypass 122 0 416 Access to Lime Street Station 27 33 124 A561 Park Road relief road 0 0 300 Minor works 156 366 870