Transport Infrastructure Spending

HC Deb 07 December 1998 vol 322 cc45-6W

Mr. Brake

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will provide a breakdown of transport infrastructure spending on(a) pavements, (b) cyclepaths, (c) roads, (d) the Underground, (e) buses, (f) railways and (g) River Thames quays and riverbuses, in London in each of the last five years. [61662]

Ms Glenda Jackson

The following table gives a breakdown of central Government support for items(b) to (e) and Port of London Authority expenditure on (g) in the last five years. The London authorities and developers also provide additional funding for items (b), (c) and (e). Information on this additional funding and on (a) and (f) is not held centrally. The figures for (c) exclude the Highways Agency allocations as they were not fully founded until 1994, and they keep their records on a national basis. I will write to the hon. Member separately on that matter.

£million
	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)
	Cyclepaths1	Roads2	Underground3	Buses4	River Thames Piers5
1993–94	—	98	786	28	1.0
1994–95	—	76	929	16	0.2
1995–96	3	69	1,087	17	0.1
1996–97	4	57	1,034	23	0.2
1997–98	4	51	800	37	3.3
Total	11	353	4,636	122	4.8
1 Transport Policies and Programmes (TPP) allocations for the London Cycle Network.
2 TPP allocations for principal road maintenance and major schemes and Traffic Director for London annual spends, but excludes the Highways Agency funding of trunk roads.
3 London Underground investment.
4 London Transport Bus investment and TPP allocations for the London Bus Priority Network. These figures do not fully reflect the overall investment in buses given that since privatisation in 1994 the purchase of new buses has been a matter for the private bus operating companies and the road infrastructure funding at (c) directly assists the movements of buses.
5 Port of London Authority expenditure by calender year (e.g. first entry is for calender year 1994) on Thames Piers (Quays). The 1998 figure is forecast expenditure. There has been no central Government support on river buses in the last five years.