§ Mr. HaselhurstTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will announce the allocation of capital resources for expenditure on local roads and transport in England for 1995–96.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThis year, a total of £960 million is to be allocated to local highway authorities and passenger transport authorities in England for capital expenditure on their local transport infrastructure in 1995–96. This consists of £278 million in transport supplementary grant and £682 million in annual capital guideline, supplementary credit approval, grant under section 56 of the Transport Act 1968 and grant under section 13 of the Industrial Development Act 1982. With the help of capital reserves and developer contributions, I therefore expect authorities to be able to spend over £1,000 million in total.
In this year's settlement, I am funding 37 packages of measures proposed by local authorities outside London to encourage public transport, cycling and walking and to offer attractive alternatives to car use. I am also providing funding for a number of measures in London, including the London bus priority network and the London cycle network.
I am setting aside resources for 10 new major public transport schemes which are expected to begin construction in 1995–96. They include the Croydon tramlink and Midland metro light rail schemes subject to satisfactory terms being agreed.
I am also accepting 28 new road schemes for funding for the first time. These include bypasses and relief roads designed to take traffic away from congested areas, and schemes designed to provide access to the national road network from key industrial areas.
Table 1 sets out the national totals for different types of expenditure. Table 2 shows the total amounts of grant, credit approval and gross approved expenditure for each of the 108 local highway authorities, and the six passenger transport authorities. The Department's regional offices are notifying them today of their allocations. Table 3 contains the package allocations, and table 4 lists the new major road and public transport schemes accepted this year. Table 5 contains comparable information for London.
Road safety remains a high priority. Within the overall total, the level of funding for local safety schemes has been maintained at the record level of £50 million allocated in each of the past two years.
Some £117 million is being allocated for assessment, strengthening and maintenance of local authority bridges, and £141 million is for the structural maintenance of principal roads.
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Tablel 1 £ million Grant eligible Existing commitments 428.713 New major TSG road schemes 22.702 New major public transport schemes 16.750 Maintenance of principal roads 141.039 Bridges 117.000 IDA grant 4.000 Non-grant aided Local safety schemes 50.000 Packages 64.000 Block SCA for minor works 64.167 ERDF SCA 22.000 Scheme specific SCA 29.629 Total 960.000 Key:
- TSG-Transport supplementary grant
- IDA-Industrial Development Act
- SCA-Supplementary credit approval
- ERDF-European regional development fund
Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96 Government grant (TSG) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million Gross approved spending £ million London boroughs City of London 0.248 2.623 2.871 Barking and Dagenham 0.314 1.160 1.474 Barnet 0.133 3.062 3.296 Bexley 5.213 6.181 11.681 Brent 0.618 2.517 3.135 Bromley 0.503 2.012 2.515 Camden 1.342 2.390 3.732 Croydon 0.584 1.903 2.664 Ealing 0.000 1.498 1.759 Enfield 1.847 2.694 4.541 Greenwich 2.457 3.386 5.861 Hackney 0.207 1.261 1.854 Hammersmith and Fulham 0.743 3.533 4.395 Haringey 0.000 1.768 2.370 Harrow 0.812 4.399 8.319 Havering 0.227 0.768 0.995 Hillingdon 1.140 3.273 5.357 Hounslow 1.563 2.822 4.574 Islington 1.127 2.662 3.863 Kensington and Chelsea 0.000 1.139 1.314 Kingston upon Thames 1.924 5.957 8.272 Lambeth 0.532 1.597 2.362 Lewisbam 0.880 2.223 3.475 Merton 0.000 1.052 1.198 Newham 1.815 5.010 7.772 Redbridge 0.383 0.837 1.220 Richmond upon Thames 0.308 2.730 3.038 Southwark 0.705 2.464 4.278 Sutton 0.234 1.431 1.854 Tower Hamlets 0.000 1.707 2.609 Waltham Forest 0.169 1.470 2.090 Wandsworth 0.535 2.040 2.575 Westminster 0.979 3.110 4.824 Note:
Gross approved expenditure exceeds the sum of grant and borrowing approval if an authority holds unused grant from previous years.
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Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96 Government grant (TSG) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million Gross approved spending £ million Metropolitan Districts Bolton 1,827 2.770 5.130 Bury 0.556 1.162 1.718 Manchster 5.564 7.940 13.504 Oldham 1.783 2.630 4.566 Rochdale 1.283 2.034 3.317 Salford 4.205 5.145 9.350 Stockport 1.235 1.876 3.336 Tameside 0.395 1.180 1.812 Trafford 0.000 3.666 6.995 Wigan 0.503 0.994 1.553 Knowsley 4.632 9.788 18.365 Liverpool 0.325 3.746 5.445 St. Helens 1.025 1.617 2.652 Sefton 0.563 2.149 2.812 Wirral 1.202 2.871 4.430 Barnsley 4.122 5.133 9.596 Doncaster 2.629 3.897 7.069 Rotherham 0.564 1.607 2.638 Sheffield 1.311 9.852 16.329 Gateshead 0.000 1.336 1.908 Newcastle upon Tyne 3.688 4.618 8.752 North Tyneside 0.415 1.102 1.601 South Tyneside 0.358 0.807 1.165 Sunderland 1.449 2.116 3.629 Birmingham 12.298 20.112 34.979 Coventry 2.016 7.300 13.350 Dudley 1.753 3.960 5.713 Sandwell 1.831 3.760 6.028 Solihull 0.898 1.789 2.732 Walsall 0.919 2.779 4.166 Wolverhampton 5.596 8.974 10.059 Bradford 1.675 4.302 6.253 Calderdale 1.156 3.132 4.288 Kirklees 1.845 3.329 5.174 Leeds 5.373 12.593 18.716 Wakefield 4.452 5.666 10.242 Note:
Gross approved expenditure exceeds the sum of grant and borrowing approval if an authority holds unused grant from previous years.
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Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96 Government grant (TSG) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million Gross approved spending £ million Counties Avon 2.169 8.687 12.224 Bedfordshire 5.606 7.629 13.235 Berkshire 0.967 5.823 9.880 Buckinghamshire 2.143 3.965 6.108 Cambridgeshire 2.270 6.436 9.080 Cheshire 12.435 13.749 26.212 Cleveland 0.179 4.791 7.531 Cornwall 4.105 6.928 11.135 Cumbria 1.336 2.755 4.129 Derbyshire 3.575 5.449 9.024 Devon 2.468 7.856 11.764 Dorset 1.701 3.911 5.612 Durham 1.006 3.880 6.230 East Sussex 4.526 7.285 12.224 Essex 2.661 8.402 11.063 Gloucestershire 2.697 4.321 7.693 Hampshire 9.681 14.222 23.903 Hereford and Worcester 1.893 3.135 5.028
Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96 Government grant (TSG) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million Gross approved spending £ million Hertfordshire 5.626 8.340 13.966 Humberside 3.470 7.316 11.798 Isle of Wight 0.370 3.609 3.979 Kent 34.803 44.879 86.623 Lancashire 4.921 11.518 17.529 Leicestershire1 3.665 8.179 12.069 Lincolnshire 1.920 5.261 7.181 Norfolk 5.663 9.059 15.371 Northamptonshire 3.775 5.526 9.494 Northumberland 3.875 4.730 8.605 North Yorkshire 5.468 7.564 13.215 Nottinghamshire 4.682 8.433 13.115 Oxfordshire 1.007 4.509 6.314 Shropshire 1.462 4.023 5.542 Somerset 4.371 6.856 12.521 Staffordshire 6.668 9.204 15.872 Suffolk 4.141 9.329 13.470 Surrey 11.380 16.121 28.513 Warwickshire 1.352 3.084 4.444 West Sussex 0.816 2.846 4.254 Wiltshire 0.747 3.295 5.048 Note: Gross approved expenditure exceeds the sum of grant and borrowing approval if an authority holds unused grant from previous years. 1 Includes £746,000 public transport grant (s56).
Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96 Government grant (s56) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million Passenger Transport Authorities Greater Manchester 0.000 4.000 Merseyside 0.000 8.626 South Yorkshire 4.919 51.610 Tyne and Wear 0.000 2.370 West Midlands 0.000 8.870 West Yorkshire 0.000 0.100 773W
Package minor works allocation 1995–96 £ millions Current packages West Midlands—all boroughs inc. Centro 14.520 Leeds 3.800 Bournemouth and Poole 0.550 Brighton and Hove 0.850 Canterbury 0.250 Exeter 0.650 Hull 1.100 Ispwich 1.450 Oxford 1.350 Shrewsbury 0.850 Staines 0.400 Swindon 0.500 Winchester 0.750 New packages—funded for the first time in 1995–96 Bradford 1.600 Calderdale 1.400 Kirklees 0.950 Greater Manchester—inc. PTA 8.000 Merseyside—inc. Merseytravel 10.250 Wakefield 0.750 Ashford 0.250 Avon 2.350
Package minor works allocations 1995–96 £ millions Bedford/Kempston 0.300 Cambridge 1.650 Dartmoor 0.110 Central Leicestershire 1.900 Macclesfield 0.200 New Forest 0.120 North Staffordshire 0.750 Norwich 0.400 Greater Nottingham 1.600 Plymouth 1.000 Preston and South Ribble 0.500 Reading 0.400 Southampton 0.250 Teesside 1.100 Warwick, Leamington and Kenilworth 0.350 York 0.600 Grand total 63.800 774W
New major transport supplementary grant schemes (excluding London) Authority Scheme Buckinghamshire A413 Wendover Bypass Hampshire A325 Woolmar Road Link Kent B2006 Staplehurst Road Link, Sittingbourne Oxfordshire A421/B4031 Tingewick to A43 Improvement West Sussex A2300 Burgess Hill—A23 Link Devon A381 Salcombe Dip to Inverteign Drive, Teignmouth Gloucestershire A430 Gloucester South West Bypass Somerset A37 Improvements, Yeovil to Dorset Boundary—phase 1 Sandwell A4034 Churchbridge Improvement, Sandwell Hereford and Worcestershire A422 Worchester Western Bypass and Link Roads Staffordshire A50 Victoria Place Link, Stoke on Trent Oldham A62/A627 Oldham Way Improvements Cheshire A534 Wheelock Bypass Cumbria A595 Dalton in Furness to Askam in Furness Lancashire A6 South Ribble/M65 Interface Improvements Sefton Aintree Park Lane Improvement Northumberland A189 North Seaton Duplication Stage 1 Leeds Leeds City Centre Loop Phase 1 Wakefield A655 Normanton Bypass North Yorkshire B1228 Peasholme Green Bridge Lincolnshire A57/B1003 Ropewalk to Carholme Road, Lincoln Northamptonshire A605 Warmington Bypass and Improvements at Tansor Nottinghamshire A608 Improvement, Ml to A611, Annesley Cambridgeshire A15 Werrington to Glinton Phase 2 Norfolk A149 Ormesby Bypass Other schemes, non TSG (excluding London) Cleveland A179 Improvement, Hartlepool Sheffield Inner Ring Road, Northern Section, Stage 1 Suffolk A604 Haverhill Bypass Stage 2
New major public transport schemes (excluding London) Authority Scheme Avon Filton Abbeywood Station Calderdale Halifax-Huddersfield Railway Line Merseyside PTA Conway Park Railway Station West Midlands PTA Midland Metro, Line 1 Other public transport measures (excluding London) East Sussex London Road/Brighton Station Bus Priority Hampshire ENTRANCE-EC project Avon Avonmouth/Ashton Vale Park and Ride Norfolk Norwich Park and Ride— Cringleford
New major road and public transport schemes in London accepted this year Local authority Scheme All London authorities The London Cycle Network Barking and Dagenham Choats Manor Way Link Road Bexley Bexleyheath Town Centre Traffic Management Haringey Spouter's Corner improvement Brent New stations, West London rail Hammersmith and Fulham line Kensington and Chelsea Wandsworth