§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the estimated expenditure on local transport by each county in 1974–75; what is the level of expenditure accepted by him for each county in 1975–76; and what change this represents in each case over 1974–75.
§ Mr. MulleyThe estimated expenditure for each county in England in 1975–76 accepted for transport supplementary grant is given in the following table. Comparable up-to-date estimates of transport expenditure in 1974–75 for each county are not yet available.
Accepted expenditure 1975–76 at November 1974 prices:
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£ million GLC 206.280 Greater Manchester 42.853 Merseyside 29.787 Tyne and Wear 43.218 West Midlands 52.140 South Yorkshire 22.565 West Yorkshire 42.870 Avon 10.153 Bedfordshire 8.069 Berkshire 11.773 Buckinghamshire 7.296 Cambridgeshire 7.875 Cheshire 17.342 Cleveland 13.958 Cornwall 4.629 Cumbria 6.676 Derbyshire 10.205 Devon 15.743 Dorset 7.025 Durham 7.103 East Sussex 8.872 Essex 15.987 Gloucestershire 5.753 Hampshire 24.840 Hereford and Worcester 11.971 Hertfordshire 15.868 Humberside 8.121 Isle of Wight 1.720 Kent 16.806 Lancashire 15.298 Leicestershire 8.577 Lincolnshire 7.617 Norfolk 7.796 Northamptonshire 11.875 Northumberland 6.280 North Yorkshire 10.230 Nottinghamshire 11.000 Oxfordshire 5.701 Shropshire 5.448 Somerset 5.014 Staffordshire 15.092
£ million Suftolk 6.394 Surrey 11.312 Warwickshire 6.739 West Sussex 8.182 Wiltshire 7.409 Total England 827.462