§ Sir John HuntTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much local highway authority expenditure he intends to accept for transport supplementary grant in 1991–92.
§ Mr. RifkindI have decided to accept a net local highway expenditure of £636 million for transport supplementary grant—TSG— in 1991–92. A total of £318 million grant is to be paid in support of capital expenditure on local authority road schemes, and bridge assessment and strengthening. This is an increase of 17 per cent. on last year's grant for road schemes. Structural maintenance work on bridges eligible for grant for the first time has been allocated £45 million. Grant is paid at a flat rate of 50 per cent. on schemes and works accepted from the bids made by the 108 local highway authorities in England.
I have also decided to issue supplementary credit approvals of £90 million and total annual capital
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Local authority capital expenditure on roads 1991–92 Authority Accepted expenditure for bridge strengthening and assessment1 Net total expenditure accepted for transport supplementary grant Transport supplementary grant Total credit2 £ million (1) £ million (2) £ million (3) £ million (4) London boroughs City of London 0.199 0.618 0.309 0.455 Barking and Dagenham 0.197 3.670 1.835 2.255 Barnet 0.528 1.030 0.515 0.803 Bexley 0.300 2.500 1.250 1.858 Brent 1.167 1.386 0.693 2.557 Bromley 0.135 6.110 3.055 4.404 Camden 0.547 1.288 0.644 1.220 Croydon 0.012 1.538 0.769 1.452 Ealing 0.190 3.172 1.586 2.690 Enfield 0.990 9.000 4.500 4.666 Greenwich 0.148 0.000 0.000 0.521 Hackney 0.420 1.048 0.524 1.143 Hammersmith and Fulham 0.370 0.858 0.429 0.859 guidelines of £362 million, bringing allocation for local roads, parking and bridge maintenance for 1991–92 to £771 million. The figure for local roads and parking for 1990–91 is £635 million.
In deciding the distribution of transport supplementary grant for 1991–92, I have considered carefully the transport policies and programme documents submitted by each local highway authority, and have looked at the extent to which authorities' programmes relate to roads of more than local importance.
Accepted expenditure for minor works has almost doubled, rising from £38 million for 1990–91 to £75 million for 1991–92. The new figure includes £31 million given for local safety schemes, which for the first time in 1991–92 are eligible for grant on all roads and not only on roads of more than local importance. This is in line with the suggestions of the Parliamentary Advisory Committee on Transport Safety. It is up to local authorities to decide which schemes to carry out; this level of finance could however support around 3,500 new local safety schemes which in only 12 months could save 80 lives, 1,000 serious injuries, and in all prevent 5,000 casualties.
The grant will also provide £262 million in 1991–92 for continued support of 271 major local authority road schemes which are under construction or about to start; 35 new major schemes—over £1 million—have been accepted into the programme. The total cost of these new schemes is £166 million and the expenditure on them in 1991–92 is £42 million.
Among these new schemes are major improvements on the A 13 in Essex serving east London and docklands, phase 2 of the Reading relief road, and the support of a major bypass of the A34 in Cheshire and Stockport. Fifteen of these schemes are bypasses to town centres and urban areas, which will greatly enhance the quality of life and improve the local environment in some of our historic towns. The remaining schemes are for upgrading existing roads and for improving access to urban and inner city areas.
The amount of expenditure accepted for TSG, the amount of grant, the accepted expenditure for bridge maintenance and, the total of annual capital guidelines and special credit approvals for each local highway authority are set out in the tables. Councils are being informed individually today of their own figures.
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Authority Accepted expenditure for bridge strengthening and assessment1 Net total expenditure accepted for transport supplementary grant Transport supplementary grant Total credit2 £ million (1) £ million (2) £ million (3) £ million (4) Haringey 0.227 2.132 1.066 1.577 Harrow 0.560 6.566 3.283 6.651 Havering 0.518 1.278 0.639 0.903 Hillingdon 1.120 12.704 6.352 9.537 Hounslow 0.145 0.944 0.472 0.926 Islington 0.080 0.724 0.362 0.953 Kensington and Chelsea 0.290 0.460 0.230 0.890 Kingston upon Thames 0.255 1.226 0.613 1.184 Lambeth 0.100 0.596 0.298 0.421 Lewisham 0.431 8.540 4.270 8.371 Merton 0.078 0.018 0.009 1.651 Newham 0.886 1.630 0.815 2.948 Redbridge 0.253 0.832 0.416 0.727 Richmond upon Thames 0.315 0.816 0.408 0.620 South wark 0.118 0.898 0.449 2.530 Sutton 1.338 1.982 0.991 2.330 Tower Hamlets 0.691 0.990 0.495 1.277 Waltham Forest 0.110 0.778 0.389 0.687 Wandsworth 1.169 4.348 2.174 2.963 Westminster 1.100 1.692 0.846 4.384 Metropolitan districts Bolton 0.565 2.528 1.264 1.468 Bury 0.370 0.866 0.433 0.578 Manchester 0.515 18.790 9.395 10.074 Oldham 1.735 3.896 1.948 2.864 Rochdale 0.376 0.928 0.464 0.605 Salford 0.650 3.138 1.569 3064 Stockport 1.013 3.480 1.740 1.844 Tameside 1.112 1.380 0.690 1.309 Trafford 0.250 0.276 0.138 1.531 Wigan 0.350 3.692 1.846 2.800 Knowsley 0.401 3.340 1.670 1.806 Liverpool 0.360 0.000 0.000 0.611 St. Helens 0.353 15.562 7.781 8.740 Sefton 0.888 1.238 0.619 0.823 Wirral 0.475 0.000 0.000 0.848 Barnsley 0.527 5.342 2.671 3.236 Doncaster 2.854 4.584 2.292 4.474 Rotherham 0.215 1.324 0.662 0.908 Sheffield 1000 10.024 5012 8.680 Gateshead 0175 1.512 0.756 1.042 Newcastle upon Tyne 0.480 1.978 0.989 2.829 North Tyneside 0.020 0.630 0.315 0.409 South Tyneside 0.236 1.922 0.961 1.097 Sunderland 0.474 3.826 1.913 2.542 Birmingham 2.500 20.512 10.256 15.524 Coventry 0.258 5.586 2.793 3.301 Dudley 0.189 2.888 1.444 2.522 Sandwell 1.781 2.360 1.180 1.557 Solihull 0.850 0.884 0.442 1.752 Walsall 1.802 0.880 0.440 2.120 Wolverhampton 1.095 12.320 6.160 7.486 Bradford 0.154 4.560 2.280 3.442 Calderdale 0.411 0.734 0.367 0.491 Kirklees 1.032 1.898 0.949 1.605 Leeds 0.827 3.974 1.987 3.260 Wakefield 1.802 2.426 1.213 2.745 Shire counties Avon 1.174 17.710 8.855 10.568 Bedfordshire 1.846 6.456 3.228 3.481 Berkshire 0.455 5.414 2.707 4.779 Buckinghamshire 0.970 3.698 1.849 2.385 Cambridgeshire 1.956 3.740 1.870 2.606 Cheshire 1.390 11.002 5.501 6.797 Cleveland 0.412 7.378 3.689 4.804 Cornwall 0.750 7.916 3.958 5.512 Cumbria 2.035 6.624 3.312 3.634 Derbysnire 1.138 2.316 1.158 6.332 Devon 2.153 10.124 5.062 6.838 Dorset 1.090 5.540 2.770 3.687
Authority Accepted expenditure for bridge strengthening and assessment1 Net total expenditure accepted for transport supplementary grant Transport supplementary grant Total credit2 £ million (1) £ million (2) £ million (3) £ million (4) Durham 0.850 7.318 3.659 4.060 East Sussex 0.524 10.462 5.231 6.963 Essex 0.475 12.896 6.448 8.569 Gloucestershire 0.348 4.182 2091 2.840 Hampshire 1.115 24.358 12.179 13.099 Hereford and Worcester 0.827 6.454 3.227 3.981 Hertfordshire 0.760 6.506 3.253 5.655 Humberside 2.000 11.178 5.589 8.307 Isle of Wight 0.135 1.942 0.971 1.282 Kent 1.450 74.458 37.229 39.538 Lancashire 4.250 22.464 11.232 13.594 Leicestershire 0.770 11.286 5.643 6.532 Lincolnshire 2.010 3.680 1.840 3.530 Norfolk 1.830 9.464 4.732 6.326 Northamptonshire 0.660 7.728 3.864 5.098 Northumberland 1.460 6.286 3.143 3.993 North Yorkshire 2.160 12.314 6157 9.321 Nottinghamshire 1.335 11110 5.555 7.267 Oxfordshire 0.378 5.968 2.984 3.998 Shropshire 0.739 8.710 4.355 5.621 Somerset 0.480 6.026 3.013 4.166 Staffordshire 0.751 7.854 3.927 6.182 Suffolk 1.980 18.596 9.298 11.715 Surrey 3.971 10.242 5.121 8.947 Warwickshire 1.670 1.902 0.951 2.765 West Sussex 0.286 8.252 4.126 4.882 Wiltshire 0.029 5.376 2.688 4.429 1 Included in (2). 2 Annual capital guidelines plus supplementary credit approvals.