HC Deb 19 April 1978 vol 948 cc186-92W
Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what are the figures for expenditure on trunk and local authority road construction and maintenance for all the English economic regions in the last 10 years.

Mr. William Rodgers

, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 14th April 1978], gave the following information:

EXPENDITURE ON ROAD CONSTRUCTION* AND MAINTENANCE:† ENGLISH REGIONS
£ thousand
Financial years
1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77‡
NORTH
Construction
Trunk roads … 14,544 24,110 33,220 32,424 18,813 8,113 15,108 16,384 33,023 26,537
LA roads … … 14,931 18,579 18,560 20,143 17,097 26,274 29,831 24,555 26,237 21,503
Maintenance
Trunk roads … 1,266 1,315 1,059 1,366 1,923 5,550 4,647 2,307 3,177 3,330
LA roads … … 10,043 10,711 11,337 12,359 13,539 15,160 17,026 17,502 22,414 23,910
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE
Construction
Trunk roads … 23,881 13,225 10,246 16,914 13,614 14,161 22,645 23,381 29,654 25,681
LA roads … … 9,532 13,453 11,550 17,876 20,909 24,945 29,570 37,007 36,628 43,511
Maintenance
Trunk roads … 1,098 1,187 1,676 1,543 2,658 4,242 4,498 2,204 6,402 7,251
LA roads … … 12,331 12,478 13,299 13,771 16,054 19,085 20,198 22,614 32,510 30,237
EAST MIDLANDS
Construction
Trunk roads … 11,530 5,902 4,203 4,797 4,746 3,149 9,183 7,577 11,661 21,257
LA roads … … 7,103 6,957 6,817 9,658 10,219 15,287 17,979 14,650 16,335 13,429
Maintenance
Trunk roads … 1,932 1,348 1,488 1,589 2,495 3,839 4,605 3,310 5,889 5,933
LA roads … … 7,953 8,197 8,503 9,864 11,244 12,442 13,831 19,798 23,738 29,153
EAST ANGLIA
Construction
Trunk roads … 1,396 2,169 2,853 3,174 2,639 3,821 16,184 15,408 13,002 18,492
LA roads … … 5,789 3,753 3,702 5,257 7,639 10,468 11,000 8,954 12,513 11,596
Maintenance
Trunk roads … 559 667 755 881 1,218 2,626 2,686 1,345 1,738 2,365
LA roads … … 4,467 4,866 5,456 5,917 6,755 7,581 7,824 9,308 11,980 12,291
£ thousand
1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77‡
SOUTH EAST
Construction
Trunk roads … 20,133 21,995 34,736 48,438 52,022 62,943 76,326 87,031 114,561 109,236
LA roads … … 52,625 56,900 58,968 67,466 77,343 86,002 92,508 82,377 81,153 73,853
Maintenance
Trunk roads … 3,417 2,962 3,319 3,628 4,759 8,471 11,570 7,293 11,523 12,418
LA roads … … 43,172 42,081 45,349 50,347 57,696 66,775 73,775 85,776 103,539 114,414
SOUTH WEST
Construction
Trunk roads … 10,976 12,393 26,464 48,324 39,435 29,694 33,264 39,149 63,796 53,001
LA roads … … 10,812 11,217 10,151 10,452 13,662 16,829 20,043 26,169 23,405 18,031
Maintenance
Trunk roads … 1,408 1,304 1,495 1,692 2,213 3,582 7,439 3,316 4,252 4,235
LA roads … … 11,872 12,161 12,292 13,637 15,602 17,481 18,740 22,395 28,624 29,987
WEST MIDLANDS
Construction
Trunk roads … 17,297 20,363 22,455 29,437 18,037 13,085 15,899 17,113 31,035 26,633
LA roads … … 13,789 18,511 20,414 23,856 25,346 27,288 37,723 35,300 35,948 41,265
Maintenance
Trunk roads … 1,509 1,800 2,211 2,647 3,194 6,176 4,193 4,387 5,764 9,114
LA roads … … 12,276 12,222 12,672 14,505 15,768 18,733 19,830 23,181 29,379 30,980
NORTH WEST
Construction
Trunk roads … 8,476 19,487 35,527 27,088 27,047 28,922 41,431 35,318 34,714 38,292
LA roads … … 23,641 21,477 24,461 39,695 36,371 37,725 36,568 31,317 34,332 37,808
Maintenance
Trunk roads … 1,463 1,502 1,664 1,823 2,017 4,508 6,916 4,216 6,676 8,872
LA roads … … 16,430 15,647 15,944 18,716 20,025 23,574 25,362 27,903 33,400 38,885
£ thousand
1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77†
UNALLOCABLE
Construction
Trunk roads … 4,007 5,429 4,752 20,145 15,350 34,867 27,917 42,806 43,853 43,322
LA roads … … — — — — — 162 — 4,671 — —
Maintenance
Trunk roads … 258 525 798 419 791 235 703 5,361 3,710 3,049
LA roads … … — — — — — 85 — 1,524 — —
* Including expenditure on road improvements.
† Including expenditure on cleansing, gritting and snow clearing.
‡ Provisional figures.