§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will name the road schemes by each local authority which make up the existing commitments in the Local Transport Settlement 1999–2000; and if he will indicate for each(a) the money awarded in the 1999–2000 local transport settlement and (b) the total costs. [67021]
§ Ms Glenda Jackson[holding answer 26 January 1999]: The table shows allocations made to grant supported major road schemes as part of the 1999–2000 local transport capital settlement. These schemes were accepted for funding between the 1986–87 and 1997–98 settlements. The Government are committed to providing sufficient funding for their completion, provided they continue to make reasonable progress, although we do not commit to fund the full costs of a major local road scheme. The table does not include committed expenditure on non-road schemes or resources which cannot be identified to a single road scheme, such as resources to meet applications during 1999–00 for grant under the Industrial Development Act 1982.
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Authority Scheme name Allocation (£000) Total gross cost (£000) Lincolnshire Market Deeping Bypass 410 11,378 Newcastle upon Tyne West Central Route 4,500 21,709 Redcar and Cleveland Skelton and Brotton Bypass 2,500 13,500 Cheshire Chester Park and Ride Phase Two 1,000 7,858 Cheshire Wheelock Bypass 2,200 11,600 Lancashire South Ribble M65 Interface Improvements 2,800 12,847 Oldham A62/A627 Oldham Way Improvements 300 6,981 Trafford Trafford Road Improvement 282 23,952 Buckinghamshire Tingewick Bypass 282 13,274 East Sussex New Route (Dittons to Seaside) Eastbourne 2,200 29,370 Kent Barracks Link Ashford 250 4,487 Kent South Thames-Side Development Route Stage 4 4,000 14,480 Kent Wainscott Northern Bypass 24,250 77,139 Kent Thanet Way Dualling (Sections 1–7A) 8,000 191,405 Medway Towns Gillingham Northern Bypass 2,584 44,685 Surrey Runfold Diversion/Blackwater Valley Route A31-A323 1,500 50,059 Dorset A37 Improvements 120 9,029 Gloucestershire Gloucester South West Bypass 2,654 21,022 Somerset Yeovil to Dorset Boundary Phase 1 1,430 5,842 Somerset Wells Relief Road 700 14,422 South Gloucestershire Avon Ring Road II: B4465 Shortwood—A420 Warmley 9,700 29,961 Dudley Dudley Southern Bypass 9,000 57,000 Solihull West Midlands Renaissance Area 300 18,878 Wolverhampton Wednesfield Bypass and Industrial Access 1,400 23,819 Barnsley Dearne Towns Link Road 1,000 40,422 Leeds Leeds City Centre Loop Phase 3 700 6,989 Leeds Leeds Inner Ring Road Stages 6 and 7 3,800 78,821 North East Lincolnshire Grimsby, Peakes Parkway 1,600 25,991 Hertfordshire Cheshunt Link Road 220 16,552 Peterborough Werrington to Glinton Phase 2 748 1,752 Bexley Erith-Thamesmead Spine Road (Phase IV) 712 34,499 Greenwich Woolwich Road Improvement 2,114 24,828 Harrow A409 Sheepcote Road Widening for two-way traffic 524 2,905 Harrow A409 Wealdstone By Pass 292 16,517 Hillingdon Uxbridge Town Centre 350 2,329 Kensington and Chelsea Harrow Road Junction with Ladbrooke Grove 516 9,171 Kingston upon Thames North—South Strategy—A240 Corridor 800 4,730 Knowsley M57—A562 Link Road 1,000 47,607 Sefton Aintree, Park Lane Improvement 2,000 3,936 Total 98,738 1,037,489
§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many local authorities have formally asked his Department for the routes of road schemes withdrawn in the National Roads Programme to be protected as advised in paragraph 96 of the draft guidance on Local Transport Plans. [67023]
§ Ms Glenda Jackson[holding answer 26 January 1999]: To date no local authorities have formally indicated whether they intend to seek route protection for any of the schemes on routes to be detrunked which were withdrawn from the National Roads Programme as a result of the Roads Review. But, two authorities have proposed that route protection should be retained beyond the end of July pending the outcome of further studies.
§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the number of major new road schemes for which each local authority bid for funding under the TPP system for 1999–2000. [67022]
§ Ms Glenda Jackson[holding answer 26 January 1999]: We received eighty bids for new major local road schemes from English local highway authorities requesting 258W capital funding in 1999–2000. The following authorities bid for one major scheme each: Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Stockton-on-Tees, Halton, Salford, West Yorkshire PTA, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, West Sussex, Windsor and Maidenhead, Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, Birmingham, Sandwell, Warwickshire, Barnsley, Kirklees, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bexley, Enfield, Greenwich and St. Helens. Authorities bidding for two or more schemes are shown in the table:
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Authority Number of new major road scheme bids Leicestershire 2 Nottinghamshire 5 Surrey 4 Cornwall 4 Devon 2 Gloucestershire 2 Somerset 2 Staffordshire 3 Stoke-on-Trent 2 West Midlands Joint authorities1 9 Worcestershire 2 Doncaster 3
Authority Number of new major road scheme bids Luton 2 Norfolk 7 Sutton 2 Westminster 2 Total 80 1 the bid from the West Midlands Joint authorities was submitted on behalf of Birmingham, Centro, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton authorities. As announced in the local transport capital settlement for 1999–2000 on 17 December 1998, we accepted two of these schemes.