HC Deb 25 February 1994 vol 238 cc462-4W
Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what amounts of money as a percentage of overall amount received, have been earmarked in 1992–93 and 1993–94 in each highway authority for the strengthening and widening of roads in preparation for the introduction from 1999 of 44-tonne lorries for international routes.

Mr. Key

No such earmarking of resources has taken place. Local highway authorities may use allocations for capital maintenance and minor improvement works on any schemes they wish within the rules of the transport supplementary grant system. We have, however, made specific allocations for the assessment and strengthening of bridges in preparation for the introduction of 40-tonne lorries in 1999. The allocations to each authority for this purpose in 1992–93 and 1993–94 are shown in the following table. The introduction of 44-tonne lorries for certain combined transport journeys will not require any additional strengthening compared with that of 40-tonne lorries, since it does not involve any further increase in axle weights.

Authority 1992–93 1993–94
£000 Per cent. £000 Per cent.
City of London 3,043 88.2 1,696 75.3
Barking 72 4.8 288 10.3
Barnet 461 41.8 130 8.8
Bexley 315 8.7 297 4.4
Brent 1,038 30.5 611 25.4

Authority 1992–93 1993–94
£000 Per cent. £000 Per cent.
Bromley 180 3.1 207 3.6
Camden 2,195 44.9 1,634 37.4
Croydon 12 0.6 90 1.4
Ealing 20 0.4 392 9.8
Enfield 2,270 18.5 1,235 18.4
Greenwich 335 31.5 355 18.3
Hackney 75 2.4 147 5.1
Hammersmith 940 41.9 1,000 31.3
Haringey 532 13.7 688 19.7
Harrow 410 3.6 747 5.5
Havering 308 35.7 647 46.6
Hillingdon 300 1.6 450 3.4
Hounslow 60 5.2 270 4.7
Islington 315 12.6 274 10.6
Kensington 25 1.4 298 17.0
Kingston 461 17.2 425 15.3
Lambeth 100 12.1 190 14.7
Lewisham 287 2.3 200 2.3
Merton 93 4.3 95 3.4
Newham 460 6.4 3,237 31.3
Redbridge 249 22.5 223 9.9
Richmond 372 39.2 546 42.4
Southwark 33 0.8 125 2.4
Sutton 109 6.9 620 22.7
Tower Hamlets 86 2.9 491 5.4
Waltham Forest 30 1.4 100 3.5
Wandsworth 2,736 47.5 2,943 50.7
Westminster 3,700 58.0 2,665 49.6
Bolton 1,175 32.2 1,098 28.3
Bury 370 29.3 570 28.7
Manchester 2,210 11.5 3,048 11.3
Oldham 2,842 22.2 2,806 31.6
Rochdale 505 31.1 923 44.8
Salford 555 13.3 765 21.3
Stockport 2,087 55.1 2,289 49.3
Tameside 1,276 44.3 373 11.1
Trafford 200 3.8 158 3.0
Wigan 450 10.4 384 21.4
Knowsley 320 2.3 386 1.7
Liverpool 400 15.5 555 11.6
St. Helens 225 1.5 192 3.8
Sefton 538 36.0 598 28.8
Wirral 670 17.3 1,349 27.6
Barnsley 824 9.7 469 9.3
Doncaster 3,479 46.0 1,578 21.8
Rotherham 350 8.3 85 2.5
Sheffield 1,350 6.4 3,941 14.7
Gateshead 910 14.8 273 10.4
Newcastle 255 5.7 300 4.1
North Tyneside 20 2.1 340 20.2
South Tyneside 40 3.1 291 15.4
Sunderland 394 6.2 440 8.3
Birmingham 2,300 8.3 2,119 5.5
Coventry 320 3.0 734 5.2
Dudley 138 1.8 588 5.5
Sandwell 2,487 45.8 2,656 46.4
Solihull 100 3.9 194 5.2
Walsall 2,018 10.1 1,500 6.6
Wolverhampton 140 1.4 2,023 10.9
Bradford 1,000 18.4 945 14.1
Calderdale 374 33.6 904 31.3
Kirklees 1,650 32.9 1,294 14.5
Leeds 595 5.8 3,581 15.8
Wakefield 1,386 42.2 1,209 28.0
Avon 1,595 5.9 1,819 8.2
Bedfordshire 1,486 31.3 2,150 28.0
Berkshire 1,064 8.8 1,125 8.8
Buckinghamshire 549 10.6 611 8.8
Cambridgeshire 1,900 29.9 2,474 23.3
Cheshire 1,020 4.3 2,720 10.5
Cleveland 540 5.1 1,119 7.4
Cornwall 790 6.8 1,700 14.6
Cumbria 1,497 29.6 1,522 17.9
Derbyshire 828 13.9 1,276 15.2
Devon 1,771 18.4 1,500 11.4
Dorset 830 10.7 850 10.8
Durham 800 7.9 1,200 9.1

Authority 1992–93 1993–94
£000 Per cent. £000 Per cent.
East Sussex 613 6.4 1,776 16.9
Essex 565 4.1 1,729 10.4
Gloucestershire 486 5.3 700 7.7
Hampshire 795 2.6 1,225 2.9
Hereford and Worcester 467 5.6 685 12.9
Hertfordshire 1,256 9.2 2,045 11.4
Humberside 1,650 9.5 1,961 9.3
Isle of Wight 0 0.0 187 5.7
Kent 2,250 3.1 1,701 2.3
Lancashire 7,910 26.6 5,873 26.6
Leicestershire 385 2.3 896 7.3
Lincolnshire 1,440 18.2 2,207 20.6
Norfolk 3,887 24.7 4,786 25.7
Northamptonshire 1,142 9.7 1,394 13.2
Northumberland 100 1.5 4,480 38.9
North Yorkshire 1,760 10.7 2,875 12.4
Nottinghamshire 2,080 20.4 2,101 16.3
Oxfordshire 820 7.0 1,115 9.5
Shropshire 88 1.1 2,130 30.7
Somerset 926 10.7 1,120 7.9
Staffordshire 1,250 14.4 1,410 9.3
Suffolk 2,910 23.3 2,340 19.5
Surrey 5,900 24.5 4,765 14.0
Warwickshire 1,815 46.5 2,462 44.4
West Sussex 200 2.3 671 7.5
Wiltshire 25 0.4 185 4.3