§ Mr. Greg Knightasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list those highway authorities who have incurred liability to clawback of transport grants in each if the past three years.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyAdjustments to local highway authorities' accepted expenditure are made to ensure that over a period, expenditure on major schemes taken together, in authorities' accepted programmes is broadly in line with expenditure on major schemes accepted for grant. The present system of adjustments was introduced for shire counties in the 1986–87 settlement, and for metropolitan districts and London boroughs in 1987–88. The authorities which have been subject to adjustment of TSG accepted expenditure are:
1986–87
- Bedfordshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cornwall
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- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Essex
- Hampshire
- Hereford and Worcester
- Hertfordshire
- Humberside
- Lancashire
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Somerset
- Suffolk
1987–88
- Avon
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cleveland
- Cornwall
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Dorset
- Hampshire
- Hereford and Worcester
- Hertfordshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Warwickshire
- Wiltshire
1987–88
- Met Districts
- Barnsley
- Coventry
- Newcastle
- Sheffield
- Stockport
London boroughs
- Ealing
- Harrow
- Hillingdon
- Southwark
- Wandsworth