HC Deb 25 July 1961 vol 645 cc27-9W
Sir T. Moore

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland, in respect of the county and burgh authorities, what was the total of classified road grants requested for the period 1961–62 to 1963–64, inclusive; and what grants have now been authorised by his Department for each authority for each year.

Mr. Maclay

Requests by highway authorities for grants in respect of major improvements to classified roads for the years 1961–62 to 1963–64 amounted to £20.43 million. Because of existing commitments, including those in respect of the Forth Bridge and Clyde Tunnels, and because of the requirements of the continuing Crofter Counties Programme, it has been necessary to restrict the grants to be authorised for ordinary classified road schemes in 1961–62 to about £1.62 million; the 1961–62 authorisations under the Crofter Counties Programme

1960–61, 1959–60, 1958–59 and 1957–58 respectively.

Mr. Maclay

The information is as follows:

will be about £1.5 million and will be additional to this sum. The provisional allocation between authorities is shown in the table below, but the figures are liable to adjustment as the highway authorities make formal application for grants in respect of the individual schemes covered by their provisional allocations.

I hope to intimate shortly the allocations for 1962–63 and 1963–64.

Counties Amount
£
Aberdeen 38,400
Angus 37,500
Argyll 18,395
Ayr 34,200
Banff 16,750
Berwick 11,254
Bute 11,250
Caithness 14,250
Clackmannan 1,826
Dumfries 12,750
Dunbarton 18,750
East Lothian 8,740
Fife 20,370
Inverness 14,900
Kincardine 16,365
Kirkcudbright 37,290
Lanark 111,498
Midlothian 45,893
Moray and Nairn 16,900
Orkney 9,960
Peebles 6,375
Perth and Kinross 54,750
Renfrew 180,000
Ross and Cromarty 10,250
Roxburgh 35,250
Selkirk 3,375
Stirling 28,557
Sutherland 8,000
West Lothian 30,000
Wigtown 6,150
Zetland 11,160
Total £871,108

Large Burghs Amount
£
Aberdeen 12,210
Airdrie
Arbroath 8,000
Ayr 7,875
Coatbridge 3,000
Clydebank 7,500
Dumbarton 2,550
Dumfries
Dundee 97,583
Dunfermline
Edinburgh 65,800
Falkirk 4,025
Glasgow 155,950
Greenock 9,750
Hamilton 4,500
Inverness 31,500
Kilmarnock 11,400
Kirkcaldy
Motherwell 42,812
Paisley 74,100
Perth
Port Glasgow 206,250
Rutherglen 8,039
Stirling
Total £752,844