§ 33. Mr. Robert Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Transport whether the policy used to determine the revenue support element for buses of the transport supplementary grant to form part of the protected expenditure limit under the current Transport Bill will be identical to that used for determining the revenue support element of the transport supplementary grant for the English shire counties; and what is that policy.
§ Mr. David HowellIn deciding how much revenue support expenditure to accept for transport supplementary grant, whether for a metropolitan county or a shire county, I take account of the public transport needs of the area, and of the likely costs and benefits of the policies and programmes set out in the annual TPP submission.