§ Ian StewartTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she will announce the results of the Urban Bus Challenge Competition. [12794]
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Authority Title of bid approved Total cost (£) Blackpool Lifestyle line. Bus service for residents of two deprived wards to areas of employment and the hospital 809,225 Bristol Lawrence Weston Transport Group. Bus service for residents of deprived ward to shops, clinics and other local facilities 63,000 Essex Harlow Community Transport dial a ride scheme. Reduce social exclusion in deprived area 146,000 Greater Manchester Wythenshawe demand response service. Improved access to health and employment facilities 682,000 Call centre for demand responsive bus services. Co-ordination of demand response services 70,000 Oldham. Bus service access between residential area and employment area 345,500 Halton Daresbury Park. Provide bus service to areas of employment 122,850 Accessible Transport. Provide mini bus to employment and training opportunities for disabled people 70,675 Hampshire Leigh Park Links. Demand response service providing access to areas of employment, leisure and healthcare opportunities, particularly for unemployed young people 460,700 Hartlepool Improved transport and infrastructure services. Extended bus service to industrial estate and provision of evening and Sunday service 185,650 Lancashire Skelmersdale demand responsive transit project. Provide access links to areas of employment 619,062 Leicester Community service for Braunstone. Local estate access to employment an shopping facilities 1,130,000 Merseyside Atlantic Gateway demand response service. Provide deprived wards access to areas of employment 624,000 Huyton/Prescot demand response service. Provide access to areas of employment 480,000 Kirby/Gillmoss demand response service. Provide access to areas of employment 624,000 Norfolk Lowestoft corridor bus. Provide improved bus and evening taxi-bus service to areas of employment 926,562 Northumberland Connecting Blyth. Improved linkage of service to provide more direct links to employment opportunities 1,074,000 Nottinghamshire Mansfield. Provide deprived wards access to employment opportunities 373,495 Plymouth East/West corridor link. Provide connecting services to deprived residential areas at times required by shift patterns 190,000 South Yorkshire Parson Cross. Community bus service to stimulate community activity and new interchange facility 335,000 Stoke on Trent Health. Provide demand response service connecting three wards within Stoke to new healthcentre 733,500 Telford and Wrekin Integrated Taxi Network. Link residential area with centres of employment and bus interchange sites through provision of shuttle bus to three industrial estates 615,013 Thurrock Demand response service. Provide service from deprived urban community to integrate with existing community local bus service 263,307 Transport for London Hammersmith. Provide improved access for staff, patients and visitors to Hammersmith, Queens Charlotte and Charing Cross Hospitals 425,000 Tyne and Wear West Newcastle. Provide better access to employment opportunities to deprived areas of West Newcastle 431,214 Warwickshire Camp Hill. Address current shortfall in transport provision to employment opportunities 561,088 West Midlands Birchfield. Provision of community bus to provide regular day, evening and Sunday service 296,236 Community transport. Provide prison visitors easier access to prisons in West Midlands 321,750 Dudley. Provision of school mini bus service for children and particularly disabled children who use taxis 232,104 West Yorkshire East Leeds. Provide deprived wards access to employment opportunities 633,000 Leeds Buddying scheme. Provide personal assistance, support and training to elderly and disabled people to enable them to use public transport 240,000 Worcestershire Provide a new high frequency cross-city bus service and demand responsive orbital minibus to assist four deprived wards 1,224,000 Total 15,307,931
§ Ms KeebleI have been asked to reply.
We have today announced the 32 projects that have been successful in this year's competition, totalling £15.3 million. The projects are as listed.