§ Mr. Bradleyasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list in the Official Report the totals for each county council in England and the Greater London Council of local transport expenditure which he has accepted for the purposes of transport supplementary grant for 1977–78, broken down by the main categories of expenditure; if he will list the totals of transport supplementary grant; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. William RodgersFollowing is the information:
The total of TSG, and the principles of its distribution, are fixed as part of the rate support grant settlement, and county councils have already been notified informally of their individual shares, both of the expenditure on transport I have accepted for TSG purposes and of the grant itself. Formal decision letters are being sent to them today.
This year's TSG total of £205 million compares with £265 million for 1976–77—both at November 1975 prices. This reduction, and the comparable reduction in expenditure accepted for grant, reflects the necessary cut back in the overall resources available for transport in 621W line with general public expenditure savings. In addition, loan sanctions have also been adjusted so as to reflected the need for a continued standstill on
Accepted expenditure—TSG (November 1975 prices) Country Total £m. Capital £m. Revenue To BRB £m. Support Bus etc. £m. Highway maintenance £m. Other current expenditure £m. TSG £m. TSG revalued to Nov.1976 prices Greater London 180.000 75.000 Nil 48.000 57.000 80.680 91.437 Greater Manchester 42.900 17.090 7.000 4.200 14.150 0.460 12.403 14.057 Merseyside 27.000 4.340 6.000 7.100 9.320 0.240 8.555 9.696 Tyne and Wear 41.000 24.987 1.950 5.800 8.200 0.063 21.301 24.141 West Midlands 45.000 12.814 3.400 12.000 16.676 0.110 13.448 15.241 South Yorkshire 11.300 1.000 Nil Nil 10.130 0.170 0.291 0.330 West Yorkshire 37.080 11.815 3.900 5.300 15.930 0.135 12.427 14.084 Avon 9.174 2.897 Nil 0.848 5.410 0.019 0.350 0.397 Bedfordshire 5.892 1.955 Nil 0.382 3.480 0.075 0.910 1.031 Berkshire 8.570 4.141 Nil 0.509 3.890 0.030 1.695 1.921 Buckinghamshire 4.288 0.063 Nil 0.534 3.668 0.023 0.009 0.010 Cambridgeshire 5.799 1.477 Nil 0.600 3.708 0.014 0.403 0.457 Cheshire 12.300 3.640 Nil 1.600 6.960 0.100 2.623 2.973 Cleveland 7.650 2.924 Nil 0.800 3.900 0.026 1.640 1.859 Cornwall 5.163 0.380 Nil 0.660 4.090 0.033 0.972 1.102 Cumbria 6.845 1.000 Nil 0.948 4.888 0.009 1.682 1.906 Derbyshire 11.491 3.326 0.034 1.294 6.634 0.203 2.196 2.489 Devon 11.426 2.342 Nil 0.721 8.154 0.209 1.830 2.074 Dorset 6.688 2.528 Nil 0.750 3.400 0.010 0.912 1.034 Durham 7.119 1.641 Nil 0.598 4.840 .0040 0.955 1.082 East Sussex 7.650 2.284 Nil 0.546 4.650 0.170 1.028 1.165 Essex 12.483 2.722 0.002 0.889 8.730 0.140 0.036 0.041 Gloucestershire 5.353 1.442 0.004 0.339 3.493 0.075 0.526 0.596 Hampshire 16.646 6.442 Nil 1.584 8.330 0.290 2.109 2.390 Hereford/Worcester 10.355 4.782 Nil 0.510 4.968 0.095 3.420 3.876 Hertfordshire 12.580 2.751 0.002 1.909 7.769 0.149 2.651 3.004 Humberside 9.215 2.438 Nil 0.850 5.585 0.342 0.849 0.962 Isle of Wight 1.540 0.438 Nil 0.238 0.860 0.004 0.348 0.394 Kent 15.642 5.092 Nil 0.800 9.610 0.140 1.411 1.599 Lancashire 19.000 6.670 Nil 2.300 10.030 Nil 4.288 4.860 Leicestershire 8.189 1.241 Nil 0.978 5.930 0.040 0.202 0.229 Lincolnshire 6.358 0.287 Nil 0.379 5.625 0.067 1.014 1.149 Norfolk 8.000 2.500 Nil 0.424 5.045 0.031 1.270 1.439 Northamptonshire 5.189 0.548 Nil 0.611 3.870 0.160 0.318 0.360 Northumberland 5.350 1.664 Nil 0.356 3.300 0.030 1.884 2.135 North Yorkshire 11.932 2.366 Nil 0.765 8.456 0.345 4.121 4.670 Nottinghamshire 10.973 3.224 Nil 1.391 5.983 0.375 1.210 1.370 Oxfordshire 5.769 2.073 Nil 0.133 3.447 0.116 0.476 0.540 Salop 5.011 1.460 Nil 0.403 2.845 0.303 1.173 1.329 Somerset 5.104 1.314 Nil 0.254 3.522 0.014 0.925 1.048 Staffordshire 16.810 9.492 Nil 1.018 6.255 0.045 5.302 6.009 Suffolk 6.723 2.096 0.034 0.458 4.099 0.036 0.942 1.068 Surrey 12.950 3.620 Nil 2.130 7.200 Nil 2.480 2.811 Warwickshire 4.924 0.973 Nil 0.424 3.093 0.434 0.336 0.381 West Sussex 7.710 2.436 Nil 0.594 4.610 0.070 1.310 1.485 Wiltshire 4.759 1.149 Nil 0.286 3.157 0.167 0.034 0.039 Total England 722.900 246.864 22.326 113.213 340.497 204.945 232.270