HC Deb 18 July 1989 vol 157 c91W
Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his replies to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill of 10 July, how much money has been allocated to Liverpool city council for road schemes in each of the last five years; and what information he has on how that money has been spent.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Liverpool city council became a highway authority in 1986. Transport supplementary grant paid in support of its accepted programme of highway improvements in the four years since then has been as follows:

£ million
1986–87 2.702
1987–88 2.267
1988–89 1.235
1989–90 1.762

Expenditure details from Liverpool's 1988 transport policies and programme document are as follows:

£ thousand
Scheme 1986–87 actual outturn 1987–88 estimated outturn 1988–89 budgeted outturn
A59 Hunter Street improvement 3,230 2,443 1,634
A580 Everton Valley improvement 738 434 628
Liverpool inner ring road 523 9 167
A561 Garston bypass 122 0 416
Access to Lime Street Station 27 33 124
A561 Park Road relief road 0 0 300
Minor works 156 366 870