§ Mr. Cowansasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will revise the answer given to the honourable Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central in the Written Answer, Official Report, 12th May, columns 588-90, in the light of the allocations for future years given in his transport policy White Paper.
§ Mr. HoramFollowing are the round figures underlying those proposed for the end of the decade in Chapter 10 of the White Paper, in the form of the earlier answer. These figures do not take account of the special replacement allowance for British Rail proposed at paragraph 220 of the White Paper.
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£ million at 1967 Survey Prices A Roads and Transport(1) 2,200 B. Roads and Transport together with Capital Investment by Nationalised Surface Transport Industries(2) 2,440 Total on British Rail(3) 600 As a % of A 27.3 As a % of B 24.6 Total on Roads and related expenditure 1,255 As a % of A 57.0 As a % of B 51.4 Transport Research and Other Services (i) Road 10 As a % of A 0.4 (ii) Rail 2 As a % of A 0.1 (iii) Other 0 As a % of A — Roads and Transport Administration(4) 22 As a % of A 1.0 Local Public Transport Investment (i) Bus 65 As a % of A 3.0 (ii) Rail and Underground 90 As a % of A 4.1 Concessionary Fares 120 As a % of A 5.4 Current subsidies to bus, under-ground and ferry services 155 As a % of A 7.0 As a % of B 6.4 1 Roads and transport correspond to Table 2.6 of Cmnd. 6721 less shipping and civil aviation. 2 Capital investment corresponds to entries for surface transport industries in Table 3.1 of Cmnd. 6721 less support for investment already included in A. Separate account is not taken of net Exchequer lending to nationalised industries in Table 2.5. 3 Comprises BR share of B plus grants under Section 8 of the Railways Act 1974. 4 Central Government only: local authority administration is included with roads and related expenditure.
§ Mr. Hugh Fraserasked the Secretary of State for Transport whether, in view of the undertaking to safeguard the expenditure on major road schemes committed before the Transport Policies and Programme System was introduced, he will now reassure counties, such as Staffordshire, that grant will be paid on the additional expenditure due to higher rates of inflation and other unexpected costs which would have been covered under former legislation but which is not taken into account in the TPP system.
§ Mr. William RodgersThe Transport Supplementary Grant (TSG) system makes allowance for changes in price levels at the stage of the annual grant settlement and through the Rate Support Grant Increase Order process. TSG is a block grant, not related to specific schemes, and so increases in grant are made in line with changes in transport costs and prices generally—subject to the prevailing cash limit—rather than in relation to increases on specific schemes.