HC Deb 22 October 1992 vol 212 cc345-6W
Mr. Peter Bottomley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is the expected average rate of return from the £31 million transport supplementary grant earmarked for local safety schemes in the financial year 1991–92.

Mr. Kenneth Carlisle

Returns provided by local authorities indicate that the sum earmarked for local safety schemes in the transport supplementary grant settlement for 1991–92 produced an average first year rate of return of 76 per cent., and over the first three years a rate of return of 213 per cent.

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