HC Deb 27 January 1999 vol 324 cc256-9W
Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will name the road schemes by each local authority which make up the existing commitments in the Local Transport Settlement 1999–2000; and if he will indicate for each(a) the money awarded in the 1999–2000 local transport settlement and (b) the total costs. [67021]

Ms Glenda Jackson

[holding answer 26 January 1999]: The table shows allocations made to grant supported major road schemes as part of the 1999–2000 local transport capital settlement. These schemes were accepted for funding between the 1986–87 and 1997–98 settlements. The Government are committed to providing sufficient funding for their completion, provided they continue to make reasonable progress, although we do not commit to fund the full costs of a major local road scheme. The table does not include committed expenditure on non-road schemes or resources which cannot be identified to a single road scheme, such as resources to meet applications during 1999–00 for grant under the Industrial Development Act 1982.

Authority Scheme name Allocation (£000) Total gross cost (£000)
Lincolnshire Market Deeping Bypass 410 11,378
Newcastle upon Tyne West Central Route 4,500 21,709
Redcar and Cleveland Skelton and Brotton Bypass 2,500 13,500
Cheshire Chester Park and Ride Phase Two 1,000 7,858
Cheshire Wheelock Bypass 2,200 11,600
Lancashire South Ribble M65 Interface Improvements 2,800 12,847
Oldham A62/A627 Oldham Way Improvements 300 6,981
Trafford Trafford Road Improvement 282 23,952
Buckinghamshire Tingewick Bypass 282 13,274
East Sussex New Route (Dittons to Seaside) Eastbourne 2,200 29,370
Kent Barracks Link Ashford 250 4,487
Kent South Thames-Side Development Route Stage 4 4,000 14,480
Kent Wainscott Northern Bypass 24,250 77,139
Kent Thanet Way Dualling (Sections 1–7A) 8,000 191,405
Medway Towns Gillingham Northern Bypass 2,584 44,685
Surrey Runfold Diversion/Blackwater Valley Route A31-A323 1,500 50,059
Dorset A37 Improvements 120 9,029
Gloucestershire Gloucester South West Bypass 2,654 21,022
Somerset Yeovil to Dorset Boundary Phase 1 1,430 5,842
Somerset Wells Relief Road 700 14,422
South Gloucestershire Avon Ring Road II: B4465 Shortwood—A420 Warmley 9,700 29,961
Dudley Dudley Southern Bypass 9,000 57,000
Solihull West Midlands Renaissance Area 300 18,878
Wolverhampton Wednesfield Bypass and Industrial Access 1,400 23,819
Barnsley Dearne Towns Link Road 1,000 40,422
Leeds Leeds City Centre Loop Phase 3 700 6,989
Leeds Leeds Inner Ring Road Stages 6 and 7 3,800 78,821
North East Lincolnshire Grimsby, Peakes Parkway 1,600 25,991
Hertfordshire Cheshunt Link Road 220 16,552
Peterborough Werrington to Glinton Phase 2 748 1,752
Bexley Erith-Thamesmead Spine Road (Phase IV) 712 34,499
Greenwich Woolwich Road Improvement 2,114 24,828
Harrow A409 Sheepcote Road Widening for two-way traffic 524 2,905
Harrow A409 Wealdstone By Pass 292 16,517
Hillingdon Uxbridge Town Centre 350 2,329
Kensington and Chelsea Harrow Road Junction with Ladbrooke Grove 516 9,171
Kingston upon Thames North—South Strategy—A240 Corridor 800 4,730
Knowsley M57—A562 Link Road 1,000 47,607
Sefton Aintree, Park Lane Improvement 2,000 3,936
Total 98,738 1,037,489

Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many local authorities have formally asked his Department for the routes of road schemes withdrawn in the National Roads Programme to be protected as advised in paragraph 96 of the draft guidance on Local Transport Plans. [67023]

Ms Glenda Jackson

[holding answer 26 January 1999]: To date no local authorities have formally indicated whether they intend to seek route protection for any of the schemes on routes to be detrunked which were withdrawn from the National Roads Programme as a result of the Roads Review. But, two authorities have proposed that route protection should be retained beyond the end of July pending the outcome of further studies.

Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the number of major new road schemes for which each local authority bid for funding under the TPP system for 1999–2000. [67022]

Ms Glenda Jackson

[holding answer 26 January 1999]: We received eighty bids for new major local road schemes from English local highway authorities requesting capital funding in 1999–2000. The following authorities bid for one major scheme each: Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Stockton-on-Tees, Halton, Salford, West Yorkshire PTA, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, West Sussex, Windsor and Maidenhead, Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, Birmingham, Sandwell, Warwickshire, Barnsley, Kirklees, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bexley, Enfield, Greenwich and St. Helens. Authorities bidding for two or more schemes are shown in the table:

Authority Number of new major road scheme bids
Leicestershire 2
Nottinghamshire 5
Surrey 4
Cornwall 4
Devon 2
Gloucestershire 2
Somerset 2
Staffordshire 3
Stoke-on-Trent 2
West Midlands Joint authorities1 9
Worcestershire 2
Doncaster 3

Authority Number of new major road scheme bids
Luton 2
Norfolk 7
Sutton 2
Westminster 2
Total 80
1 the bid from the West Midlands Joint authorities was submitted on behalf of Birmingham, Centro, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton authorities.

As announced in the local transport capital settlement for 1999–2000 on 17 December 1998, we accepted two of these schemes.