Transport Supplementary Grant

HC Deb 25 January 1983 vol 35 cc412-3W

Mr. Roy Hughes

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will present in the Official Report a comparison of the bids made for transport spending eligible for transport supplementary grant in 1983–84 with the accepted level of spending for each of the following items: (a) revenue support bus and so on, (b) revenue support rail, (c) maintenance, (d) other current, (e) capital and (f) total, for the following counties: (i) the Greater London council, (ii) all metropolitan areas, (iii) all shires and (iv) England.

Mr. David Howell

The information requested is as follows:

Expenditure accepted for TSG for 1983–84 as percentages of BIDS
	Revenue support
County	Bus etc.	Rail	Road maintenance	Other current	Capital	Total
GLC	47	—	80	100	81	69
GMC	81	92	82	100	66	80
Merseyside	53	83	87	100	82	73
South Yorkshire	27	85	74	100	56	49
Tyne and Wear	65	83	86	100	40	61
West Midlands	52	51	87	100	67	69
West Yorkshire	56	87	68	100	73	66
Total Mets.	53	81	80	100	63	67
Avon	75	—	87	100	57	78
Bedford	100	—	92	100	84	89
Berkshire	100	—	85	—	84	86
Buckingham	85	—	98	100	89	93
Cambridge	100	—	93	100	89	92
Cheshire	80	—	94	100	68	85
Cleveland	39	—	83	100	61	63
Cornwall	100	100	99	100	83	93
Cumbria	100	100	97	100	100	98
Derbyshire	96	100	95	100	92	95
Devon	86	—	80	100	81	81
Dorset	100	—	94	100	86	90
Durham	100	100	94	100	94	94
East Sussex	100	—	90	100	89	91
Essex	100	100	90	100	75	86
Gloucester	88	—	89	100	90	89
Hampshire	100	—	91	100	84	89
Hereford and Worcester	91	100	88	100	80	85
Hertford	79	100	83	100	81	82
Humberside	100	100	91	100	99	95
Isle of Wight	60	—	82	100	64	72
Kent	100	—	81	100	83	83
Lancashire	90	—	81	100	64	78
Leicester	100	—	88	100	92	91
Lincoln	100	100	95	100	94	95
Norfolk	100	—	90	100	78	86
Northampton	100	—	93	100	54	73
Northumberland	100	—	99	100	100	100
North Yorkshire	100	—	91	100	84	89
Nottingham	74	—	95	100	91	91
Oxford	100	—	99	100	76	91
Shropshire	100	—	86	100	91	89
Somerset	100	—	91	100	84	89
Stafford	100	—	100	100	86	95
Suffolk	68	100	86	100	77	82
Surrey	99	—	100	100	93	98
Warwick	100	—	82	100	77	81
West Sussex	100	—	100	100	100	100
Wiltshire	100	—	84	100	96	89
Total Shires	87	100	90	100	82	87
England	57	81	86	100	78	76

Note: All figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.