§ Sir T. Mooreasked 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. MaclayRequests 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
28W1960–61, 1959–60, 1958–59 and 1957–58 respectively.
§ Mr. MaclayThe 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.
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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