§ 58. Dr. Kingasked the Minister of Transport whether he will make a supplementary general grant to local authorities to meet all or part of the extraordinary expenses which their roads committees have had to meet because of the cold weather.
§ Mr. MarplesLocal authorities in county areas receive Exchequer grants in respect of their expenditure on maintaining classified roads. The normal 169W grant allocations include some provision of snow clearing, salting and gritting and the repair of frost damage. I am, however, prepared to consider sympathetically applications by these local authorities for additional allocations to take account of their unusually heavy expenditure this winter.