HC Deb 15 December 1994 vol 251 cc769-74W
Mr. Haselhurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will announce the allocation of capital resources for expenditure on local roads and transport in England for 1995–96.

Dr. Mawhinney

This year, a total of £960 million is to be allocated to local highway authorities and passenger transport authorities in England for capital expenditure on their local transport infrastructure in 1995–96. This consists of £278 million in transport supplementary grant and £682 million in annual capital guideline, supplementary credit approval, grant under section 56 of the Transport Act 1968 and grant under section 13 of the Industrial Development Act 1982. With the help of capital reserves and developer contributions, I therefore expect authorities to be able to spend over £1,000 million in total.

In this year's settlement, I am funding 37 packages of measures proposed by local authorities outside London to encourage public transport, cycling and walking and to offer attractive alternatives to car use. I am also providing funding for a number of measures in London, including the London bus priority network and the London cycle network.

I am setting aside resources for 10 new major public transport schemes which are expected to begin construction in 1995–96. They include the Croydon tramlink and Midland metro light rail schemes subject to satisfactory terms being agreed.

I am also accepting 28 new road schemes for funding for the first time. These include bypasses and relief roads designed to take traffic away from congested areas, and schemes designed to provide access to the national road network from key industrial areas.

Table 1 sets out the national totals for different types of expenditure. Table 2 shows the total amounts of grant, credit approval and gross approved expenditure for each of the 108 local highway authorities, and the six passenger transport authorities. The Department's regional offices are notifying them today of their allocations. Table 3 contains the package allocations, and table 4 lists the new major road and public transport schemes accepted this year. Table 5 contains comparable information for London.

Road safety remains a high priority. Within the overall total, the level of funding for local safety schemes has been maintained at the record level of £50 million allocated in each of the past two years.

Some £117 million is being allocated for assessment, strengthening and maintenance of local authority bridges, and £141 million is for the structural maintenance of principal roads.

Tablel 1
£ million
Grant eligible
Existing commitments 428.713
New major TSG road schemes 22.702
New major public transport schemes 16.750
Maintenance of principal roads 141.039
Bridges 117.000
IDA grant 4.000
Non-grant aided
Local safety schemes 50.000
Packages 64.000
Block SCA for minor works 64.167
ERDF SCA 22.000
Scheme specific SCA 29.629
Total 960.000

Key:

Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96
Government grant (TSG) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million Gross approved spending £ million
London boroughs
City of London 0.248 2.623 2.871
Barking and Dagenham 0.314 1.160 1.474
Barnet 0.133 3.062 3.296
Bexley 5.213 6.181 11.681
Brent 0.618 2.517 3.135
Bromley 0.503 2.012 2.515
Camden 1.342 2.390 3.732
Croydon 0.584 1.903 2.664
Ealing 0.000 1.498 1.759
Enfield 1.847 2.694 4.541
Greenwich 2.457 3.386 5.861
Hackney 0.207 1.261 1.854
Hammersmith and Fulham 0.743 3.533 4.395
Haringey 0.000 1.768 2.370
Harrow 0.812 4.399 8.319
Havering 0.227 0.768 0.995
Hillingdon 1.140 3.273 5.357
Hounslow 1.563 2.822 4.574
Islington 1.127 2.662 3.863
Kensington and Chelsea 0.000 1.139 1.314
Kingston upon Thames 1.924 5.957 8.272
Lambeth 0.532 1.597 2.362
Lewisbam 0.880 2.223 3.475
Merton 0.000 1.052 1.198
Newham 1.815 5.010 7.772
Redbridge 0.383 0.837 1.220
Richmond upon Thames 0.308 2.730 3.038
Southwark 0.705 2.464 4.278
Sutton 0.234 1.431 1.854
Tower Hamlets 0.000 1.707 2.609
Waltham Forest 0.169 1.470 2.090
Wandsworth 0.535 2.040 2.575
Westminster 0.979 3.110 4.824

Note:

Gross approved expenditure exceeds the sum of grant and borrowing approval if an authority holds unused grant from previous years.

Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96
Government grant (TSG) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million Gross approved spending £ million
Metropolitan Districts
Bolton 1,827 2.770 5.130
Bury 0.556 1.162 1.718
Manchster 5.564 7.940 13.504
Oldham 1.783 2.630 4.566
Rochdale 1.283 2.034 3.317
Salford 4.205 5.145 9.350
Stockport 1.235 1.876 3.336
Tameside 0.395 1.180 1.812
Trafford 0.000 3.666 6.995
Wigan 0.503 0.994 1.553
Knowsley 4.632 9.788 18.365
Liverpool 0.325 3.746 5.445
St. Helens 1.025 1.617 2.652
Sefton 0.563 2.149 2.812
Wirral 1.202 2.871 4.430
Barnsley 4.122 5.133 9.596
Doncaster 2.629 3.897 7.069
Rotherham 0.564 1.607 2.638
Sheffield 1.311 9.852 16.329
Gateshead 0.000 1.336 1.908
Newcastle upon Tyne 3.688 4.618 8.752
North Tyneside 0.415 1.102 1.601
South Tyneside 0.358 0.807 1.165
Sunderland 1.449 2.116 3.629
Birmingham 12.298 20.112 34.979
Coventry 2.016 7.300 13.350
Dudley 1.753 3.960 5.713
Sandwell 1.831 3.760 6.028
Solihull 0.898 1.789 2.732
Walsall 0.919 2.779 4.166
Wolverhampton 5.596 8.974 10.059
Bradford 1.675 4.302 6.253
Calderdale 1.156 3.132 4.288
Kirklees 1.845 3.329 5.174
Leeds 5.373 12.593 18.716
Wakefield 4.452 5.666 10.242

Note:

Gross approved expenditure exceeds the sum of grant and borrowing approval if an authority holds unused grant from previous years.

Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96
Government grant (TSG) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million Gross approved spending £ million
Counties
Avon 2.169 8.687 12.224
Bedfordshire 5.606 7.629 13.235
Berkshire 0.967 5.823 9.880
Buckinghamshire 2.143 3.965 6.108
Cambridgeshire 2.270 6.436 9.080
Cheshire 12.435 13.749 26.212
Cleveland 0.179 4.791 7.531
Cornwall 4.105 6.928 11.135
Cumbria 1.336 2.755 4.129
Derbyshire 3.575 5.449 9.024
Devon 2.468 7.856 11.764
Dorset 1.701 3.911 5.612
Durham 1.006 3.880 6.230
East Sussex 4.526 7.285 12.224
Essex 2.661 8.402 11.063
Gloucestershire 2.697 4.321 7.693
Hampshire 9.681 14.222 23.903
Hereford and Worcester 1.893 3.135 5.028

Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96
Government grant (TSG) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million Gross approved spending £ million
Hertfordshire 5.626 8.340 13.966
Humberside 3.470 7.316 11.798
Isle of Wight 0.370 3.609 3.979
Kent 34.803 44.879 86.623
Lancashire 4.921 11.518 17.529
Leicestershire1 3.665 8.179 12.069
Lincolnshire 1.920 5.261 7.181
Norfolk 5.663 9.059 15.371
Northamptonshire 3.775 5.526 9.494
Northumberland 3.875 4.730 8.605
North Yorkshire 5.468 7.564 13.215
Nottinghamshire 4.682 8.433 13.115
Oxfordshire 1.007 4.509 6.314
Shropshire 1.462 4.023 5.542
Somerset 4.371 6.856 12.521
Staffordshire 6.668 9.204 15.872
Suffolk 4.141 9.329 13.470
Surrey 11.380 16.121 28.513
Warwickshire 1.352 3.084 4.444
West Sussex 0.816 2.846 4.254
Wiltshire 0.747 3.295 5.048
Note:
Gross approved expenditure exceeds the sum of grant and borrowing approval if an authority holds unused grant from previous years.
1 Includes £746,000 public transport grant (s56).

Local authority capital expenditure 1995–96
Government grant (s56) £ million Total borrowing approval £ million
Passenger Transport Authorities
Greater Manchester 0.000 4.000
Merseyside 0.000 8.626
South Yorkshire 4.919 51.610
Tyne and Wear 0.000 2.370
West Midlands 0.000 8.870
West Yorkshire 0.000 0.100

Package minor works allocation 1995–96
£ millions
Current packages
West Midlands—all boroughs inc. Centro 14.520
Leeds 3.800
Bournemouth and Poole 0.550
Brighton and Hove 0.850
Canterbury 0.250
Exeter 0.650
Hull 1.100
Ispwich 1.450
Oxford 1.350
Shrewsbury 0.850
Staines 0.400
Swindon 0.500
Winchester 0.750
New packages—funded for the first time in 1995–96
Bradford 1.600
Calderdale 1.400
Kirklees 0.950
Greater Manchester—inc. PTA 8.000
Merseyside—inc. Merseytravel 10.250
Wakefield 0.750
Ashford 0.250
Avon 2.350

Package minor works allocations 1995–96
£ millions
Bedford/Kempston 0.300
Cambridge 1.650
Dartmoor 0.110
Central Leicestershire 1.900
Macclesfield 0.200
New Forest 0.120
North Staffordshire 0.750
Norwich 0.400
Greater Nottingham 1.600
Plymouth 1.000
Preston and South Ribble 0.500
Reading 0.400
Southampton 0.250
Teesside 1.100
Warwick, Leamington and Kenilworth 0.350
York 0.600
Grand total 63.800

New major transport supplementary grant schemes (excluding London)
Authority Scheme
Buckinghamshire A413 Wendover Bypass
Hampshire A325 Woolmar Road Link
Kent B2006 Staplehurst Road Link, Sittingbourne
Oxfordshire A421/B4031 Tingewick to A43 Improvement
West Sussex A2300 Burgess Hill—A23 Link
Devon A381 Salcombe Dip to Inverteign Drive, Teignmouth
Gloucestershire A430 Gloucester South West Bypass
Somerset A37 Improvements, Yeovil to Dorset Boundary—phase 1
Sandwell A4034 Churchbridge Improvement, Sandwell
Hereford and Worcestershire A422 Worchester Western Bypass and Link Roads
Staffordshire A50 Victoria Place Link, Stoke on Trent
Oldham A62/A627 Oldham Way Improvements
Cheshire A534 Wheelock Bypass
Cumbria A595 Dalton in Furness to Askam in Furness
Lancashire A6 South Ribble/M65 Interface Improvements
Sefton Aintree Park Lane Improvement
Northumberland A189 North Seaton Duplication Stage 1
Leeds Leeds City Centre Loop Phase 1
Wakefield A655 Normanton Bypass
North Yorkshire B1228 Peasholme Green Bridge
Lincolnshire A57/B1003 Ropewalk to Carholme Road, Lincoln
Northamptonshire A605 Warmington Bypass and Improvements at Tansor
Nottinghamshire A608 Improvement, Ml to A611, Annesley
Cambridgeshire A15 Werrington to Glinton Phase 2
Norfolk A149 Ormesby Bypass
Other schemes, non TSG (excluding London)
Cleveland A179 Improvement, Hartlepool
Sheffield Inner Ring Road, Northern Section, Stage 1
Suffolk A604 Haverhill Bypass Stage 2

New major public transport schemes (excluding London)
Authority Scheme
Avon Filton Abbeywood Station
Calderdale Halifax-Huddersfield Railway Line
Merseyside PTA Conway Park Railway Station
West Midlands PTA Midland Metro, Line 1
Other public transport measures (excluding London)
East Sussex London Road/Brighton Station Bus Priority
Hampshire ENTRANCE-EC project
Avon Avonmouth/Ashton Vale Park and Ride
Norfolk Norwich Park and Ride— Cringleford

New major road and public transport schemes in London accepted this year
Local authority Scheme
All London authorities The London Cycle Network
Barking and Dagenham Choats Manor Way Link Road
Bexley Bexleyheath Town Centre Traffic Management
Haringey Spouter's Corner improvement
Brent New stations, West London rail
Hammersmith and Fulham line
Kensington and Chelsea Wandsworth