§ 22. Mr. Bob RussellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make additional funds available to local authorities for the purpose of providing more road safety traffic calming schemes. [128421]
§ Mr. HillLocal authorities support road safety schemes from the general resources that we make available for integrated transport in the annual local transport capital settlement. This year these increased by 20 per cent., and we plan to increase them further for 2001–02. In addition, a further £30 million was made available to authorities in the Budget to spend on child safety, safe routes to school and other small scale improvements.