Transport Supplementary Grant

HC Deb 12 February 1976 vol 905 cc357-9W

Mr. Michael McGuire

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report the total amount of grant aid given to each county in the United Kingdom for all transport purposes, including road works, giving in each case the amount allocated for each type of aid, e.g., bus revenue support, road works, etc., and expressed as a percentage per head of population.

Mr. Marks

In England and Wales transport supplementary grant (TSG) is

TRANSPORT SUPPLEMENTARY GRANT FOR 1976–77—ENGLAND
			At November 1974 Prices
		Accepted Expenditure £m.	Bus Revenue Support included in Accepted Expenditure £m.	Highway Maintenance included in Accepted Expenditure £m.	Grant £m.	Revaluation of grant to November 1975 Prices £m.	Grant in £/head population (November 1975 Prices) £/head
Greater London	…	162.394	37.274	54.000	66.384	82.258	11.466
Greater Manchester	43.108	4.258	12.100	12.303	15.245	5.623
Merseyside	…	25.797	3.337	8.200	7.474	9.261	5.768
Tyne and Wear	…	47.461	1.093	7.174	25.386	31.457	26.461
West Midlands	…	42.964	5.236	14.600	11.749	14.559	5.237
South Yorkshire	…	18.727	2.532	7.771	4.420	5.477	4.155
West Yorkshire	…	38.310	3.797	13.536	13.089	16.219	7.788
Avon	…	10.676	1.045	4.755	1.438	1.782	1.946
Bedfordshire	…	6.868	0.435	2.700	1.606	1.990	4.097
Berkshire	…	7.750	0.500	3.350	1.110	1.375	2.101
Buckinghamshire	…	5.551	0.620	3.100	0.605	0.750	1.507
Cambridgeshire	…	7.233	0.374	3.400	1.495	1.852	3.422
Cheshire	…	13.520	1.000	5.900	3.499	4.335	4.791
Cleveland	…	10.644	0.431	3.392	3.717	4.606	8.132
Cornwall	…	4.959	0.615	3.190	0.853	1.057	2.661
Cumbria	…	7.043	0.608	4.246	1.791	2.219	4.660
Derbyshire	…	10.529	0.798	5.400	1.487	1.843	2.065
Devon	…	13.845	0.600	7.580	3.571	4.425	4.766
Dorset	…	7.065	0.603	2.924	1.189	1.473	2.585
Durham	…	7.151	0.452	4.164	0.977	1.211	1.982
East Sussex	…	7.710	0.230	3.680	1.059	1.312	1.994
Essex	…	15.951	0.798	7.300	1.883	2.333	1.657
Gloucestershire	…	6.142	0.355	2.251	1.102	1.366	2.816
Hampshire	…	19.320	2.468	6.530	4.070	5.043	3.516
Hereford and Worcester	10.751	0.396	4.300	3.669	4.546	7.771
Hertfordshire	…	14.221	1.901	6.100	3.736	4.629	4.907
Humberside	…	8.205	0.755	4.908	0.153	0.190	0.224
Isle of Wight	…	1.646	0.186	0.660	0.422	0.523	4.724
Kent	…	16.390	0.500	8.030	1.964	2.434	1.687
Lancashire	…	16.429	1.559	8.900	2.460	3.048	2.223
Leicestershire	…	10.840	0.720	4.500	2.122	2.629	3.171
Lincolnshire	…	6.570	0.257	5.100	1.179	1.461	2.816
Norfolk	…	8.176	0.409	4.000	1.437	1.781	2.739

paid on the total amount of eligible expenditure on local transport "accepted" for each county, and the GLC. Since TSG is a block grant in aid of an authority's aggregate of expenditure, its allocation to particular purposes is a matter for the individual authorities. The amount of grant, and the amount per head of population, allocated to each council in England for 1976–77 is set out in the table below. Included in the table are the amounts of expenditure accepted for TSG purposes for each county, together with the amounts for bus revenue support and highway maintenance expenditure taken into account by my right hon. Friend in fixing the totals.

The allocation of TSG to Welsh counties is determined by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. In Scotland, grant aid to local transport is given through the rate support grant. In Northern Ireland expenditure on transport is financed through central Government.

			At November 1974 Prices
		Accepted Expenditure £m.	Bus Revenue Support included in Accepted Expenditure £m.	Highway Maintenance included in Accepted Expenditure £m.	Grant £m.	Revaluation of grant to November 1975 Prices £m.	Grant in £/head population (November 1975 Prices) £/head
Northamptonshire	…	8.504	0.640	3.600	2.682	3.323	6.698
Northumberland	…	5.213	0.300	3.024	1.762	2.183	7.628
North Yorkshire	…	11.381	0.601	7.185	3.690	4.572	7.048
Nottinghamshire	…	13.063	1.857	4.900	2.696	3.341	3.415
Oxfordshire	…	5.373	0.319	2.400	0.233	0.289	0.540
Salop	…	5.389	0.300	2.600	1.434	1.777	5.010
Somerset	…	4.966	0.219	2.700	0.836	1.036	2.587
Staffordshire	…	17.401	1.912	5.100	5.653	7.005	7.074
Suffolk	…	7.039	0.633	3.200	1.191	1.476	2.604
Surrey	…	12.920	2.040	5.450	2.405	2.980	2.959
Warwickshire	…	4.568	0.300	3.400	0.103	0.128	0.273
West Sussex	…	7.640	0.520	3.500	1.290	1.598	2.596
Wiltshire	…	5.149	0.269	2.600	0.258	0.320	0.630
TOTAL ENGLAND	…	742.552	86.052	287.400	213.632	264.717	5.700