§ Mr. AltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill, of 27 June,Official Report, column 376, if he will state the amount of transport supplementary grant allocated to Liverpool city council for the Park road relief road in 1988–89 and 1989–90.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyExpenditure on this scheme accepted for transport supplementary grant was £300,000 in 1988–89 and £2,060,000 in 1989–90. The grant payable on those figures would be £150,000 and £1,030,000 respectively.
§ Mr. AltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are his Department's procedures to ensure that funds allocated to a council as transport supplementary grant are spent on the project for which they were intended.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyTransport supplementary grant is not a specific grant paid in support of individual projects. It is paid towards the cost of accepted programmes of expenditure on named major schemes and on blocks of minor works expenditure on roads of more than local importance.
If an authority's expenditure on its approved programme in any year is significantly less than the amount accepted for TSG, an adjustment may be made to the grant paid in a subsequent year to ensure that grant is not paid twice on the same piece of planned expenditure.