HC Deb 27 January 1988 vol 126 cc260-2W
Mr. David Nicholson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish in theOfficial Report tables showing (a) the expenditure allocation to English shire counties for road construction and repair and (b) the actual expenditure outturn, for the years 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86 and 1986–87.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

The information requested is in the following tables. No local authority allocations are made for maintenance expenditure which does not class as capital expenditure covered by the capital controls system.

1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87
Shire county Capital allocation Otturn Capital allocation Outturn Capital allocation Outturn Capital allocation Outturn
Dorset 10.900 13.445 13.427 13.473 12.800 14.488 12.100 15.066
Durham 6.122 5.830 6.913 6.836 6.160 5.380 5.460 5.796
East Sussex 4.256 5.154 4.960 8.326 6.700 7.146 6.780 6.177
Essex 13.246 12.129 14.492 15.272 14.200 15.442 18.220 19.819
Gloucestershire 5.392 4.306 4.599 4.848 4.500 5.054 3.880 4.919
Hampshire 13.382 16.809 15.700 14.839 15.550 11.805 15.650 17.522
Hereford and Worcester 7.429 5.684 8.422 3.978 6.270 3.387 6.480 7.923
Hertfordshire 9.430 6.081 9.855 7.786 11.800 6.937 11.600 9.019
Humberside 10.720 11.920 11.180 10.506 8.640 9.871 7.780 17.714
Isle of Wight 2.337 1.730 2.116 2.075 2.600 2.450 2.340 1.925
Kent 14.080 16.596 16.295 16.380 17.020 20.433 17.950 27.212
Lancashire 11.441 14.686 14.969 14.282 15.700 15.296 15.880 14.272
Leicestershire 11.846 9.591 13.413 10.909 13.000 13.242 12.040 18.163
Lincolnshire 4.699 3.742 5.585 4.800 4.560 3.610 4.040 5.111
Norfolk 6.351 5.736 7.849 4.289 5.590 4.979 4.110 4.653
North Yorkshire 7.537 7.464 7.700 5.054 8.500 7.821 9.050 10.340
Northamptonshire 6.799 2.651 12.457 9.081 15.562 16.351 14.000 11.101
Northumberland 3.603 4.238 3.686 2.755 3.320 3.049 3.060 2.747
Nottinghamshire 10.865 7.518 9.516 7.391 9.010 7.203 7.080 7.392
Oxfordshire 3.503 2.699 5.088 6.757 5.210 3.638 5.330 2.077
Shropshire 4.594 4.424 4.400 4.293 3.600 2.461 3.890 3.312
Somerset 5.974 5.313 6.024 6.251 5.690 5.273 4.190 13.262
Staffordshire 9.521 10.340 8.695 9.954 12.000 12.850 12.060 11.456
Suffolk 7.068 7.806 8.334 6.524 7.960 8.021 7.360 7.008
Surrey 8.995 8.332 9.349 6.318 8.080 10.097 9.520 14.106
Warwickshire 4.928 4.485 1.781 1.666 2.347 1.717 3.768 3.773
West Sussex 7.292 3.782 8.500 7.164 8.300 9.804 8.370 10.799
Wiltshire 4.222 4.602 5.426 3.448 7.400 3.456 6.450 4.932
Total 281.586 269.360 314.780 284.771 316.835 300.682 312.374 132.277
1 Estimated.

Road maintenance
Shire county 1983–84 £ million 1984–85 £ million 1985–86 £ million 1986–87 £ million
Avon 12.070 12.903 13.770 17.596
Bedfordshire 6.920 8.886 8.854 10.078
Berkshire 6.889 6.991 6.211 7.904
Buckinghamshire 9.244 10.303 10.625 13.173
Cambridgeshire 11.619 11.253 10.901 13.295
Cheshire 5.392 5.702 6.435 7.303
Cleveland 9.384 9.011 9.950 13.775
Cornwall 10.770 10.833 11.337 12.305
Cumbria 8.761 9.460 8.735 14.421
Derbyshire 13.969 14.160 14.785 17.497
Devon 21.635 25.122 26.553 29.146
Dorset 9.284 10.130 10.850 13.843
Durham 9.746 7.987 7.449 11.299
East Sussex 7.925 8.348 9.875 11.322
Essex 21.001 21.548 23.698 30.161
Gloucestershire 8.333 8.967 8.524 11.460
Hampshire 19.101 18.767 20.942 24.919
Hereford and Worcestershire 10.046 10.688 13.300 12.977
Hertfordshire 13.354 13.741 14.728 18.705
Humberside 15.312 16.371 16.798 21.552
Isle of Wight 2.695 2.589 2.456 3.006
Kent 22.126 21.884 25.187 32.579
Lancashire 21 090 20.129 22.483 33.021
Leicestershire 13.756 14.495 14.910 18.212
Lincolnshire 14.525 14.389 15.089 17.039
Norfolk 10.994 11.980 13.405 13.935
North Yorkshire 17.616 18.509 19.731 21.459
Northamptonshire 7.104 7.733 6.369 10.172
Northumberland 6.646 7.109 6.488 9.395
Nottinghamshire 12.989 13.642 14.651 18.933
Oxfordshire 7.508 5.035 8.224 9.673
Shropshire 6.729 6.586 6.495 9.730
Somerset 9.980 10.114 10.642 12.694
Staffordshire 13.249 11.952 14.310 19.583
Suffolk 10.118 10.945 11.452 13.380
Surrey 13.131 14.705 13.652 16.558

Shire county 1983–84 £ million 1984–85 £ million 1985–86 £ million 1986–87 £ million
Warwickshire 8.427 8.301 8.583 10.162
West Sussex 9.809 9.662 11.380 13.884
Wiltshire 8.456 9.347 9.749 13.664
TOTAL 446.703 460.277 489.576 609.810