§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will rank each local authority in England in terms of the amount spent on winter road maintenance per mile for(a) trunk and (b) other roads for the latest year for which figures are available. [45327]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonData on local authority winter road maintenance are collected by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). The most recent data on spending on winter maintenance on local authority-owned roads by English local highway authorities are for 1995–96. In that year, 84 authorities provided non-zero returns for their spending on winter122W maintenance. A further 16 authorities returned zero spending on winter maintenance. The remaining 34 authorities did not separate out spending on winter maintenance from other maintenance spending.
Winter maintenance expenditure depends on local weather conditions and will therefore vary widely. It will also vary from year to year, so that a single year's results are of limited utility. Data for 1996–97 will be available later in the year.
Data on the 84 authorities providing non-zero returns are set out in the table. It is derived from data collected and published by CIPFA as Highways and Transportation Statistics 1997, CIS 14.97, November 1997.
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Local authority Winter maintenance actual expenditure £ per km Cornwall 69 Sutton 96 Camden 121 Isle of Wight 173 Somerset 178 Devon 207 Lincolnshire 215 Norfolk 248 Oxfordshire 261 Essex 287 Cambridgeshire 295 Suffolk 300 St. Helens 318 Redbridge 326 Dorset 332 Liverpool 337 Wirral 344 Shropshire 344 Bexley 356 Sefton 360 Warwickshire 364 Wakefield 369 Wigan 374 Cumbria 374 Croydon 376 Cheshire 378 Gloucestershire 382 Havering 388 East Sussex 389 Stockport 396 Solihull 402 Enfield 407 Hampshire 410 West Sussex 415 Hounslow 432 Knowsley 442 North Yorkshire 450 Doncaster 451 Trafford 453 Nottinghamshire 458 Manchester 476 Hammersmith & Fulham 479 Hertfordshire 489 Hereford & Worcester 497 Rotherham 497 Barking & Dagenham 502 Northamptonshire 503 Coventry 506 Staffordshire 509 Kent 529 Bromley 535 Westminster 539 Hackney 546 Bury 547 South Tyneside 549
Local authority Winter maintenance actual expenditure £ per km Richmond-upon-Thames 563 Salford 581 Kingston-upon-Thames 588 Rochdale 607 Wiltshire 613 Newham 638 Hillingdon 643 Northumberland 683 Leeds 685 Lancashire 686 Bolton 745 Barnet 761 Dudley 772 Derbyshire 799 Newcastle upon Tyne 803 Wandsworth 804 Bradford 819 Buckinghamshire 822 Kirklees 862 Barnsley 865 Surrey 874 Durham 875 Bedfordshire 902 Harrow 966 Birmingham 1,060 Gateshead 1,075 Calderdale 1,185 Oldham 1,208 Ealing 1,705 In 1995–96, £21.6 million was allocated for winter maintenance on trunk roads by the Highways Agency to its maintenance agents, not all of whom are local authorities.