§ Mr. MillerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what resources he proposes to provide to allow local highway authorities to deal with the backlog in local highway maintenance; and if he will make a statement. [138259]
§ Mr. HillAs set out in "Transport 2010: The 10 Year Plan" we are committed to providing sufficient funds to tackle the backlog of expenditure on carriageway, footway, bridge, and street lighting maintenance, estimated to be £7 billion in the next 10 years. In the forthcoming Local Transport Plan settlement we will provide £535 million to fund capital maintenance works on local highways in 2001–02 and £555 million in 2002–03. These are increases of 103 per cent. and 110 per cent. respectively compared with 2000–01. We have extended the settlement to cover non-principal roads as well as principal roads and bridges.
493WThe allocations for local highway authorities in 2001–02 and 2002–03 are shown in the table, with the allocations for the current year for comparison. For the remaining three years of the five years of the Local Transport Plan settlement, authorities will receive at least 75 per cent. of their allocation for maintenance in 2002–03.
In addition, earmarked resources will be provided for new major maintenance schemes for the Central Motorway East in Newcastle and for the Silver Jubilee Bridge in Halton.
These capital resources provided through the Local Transport Plan settlement are in addition to the support for local highway maintenance provided through Revenue Support Grant.
The Local Transport Plan settlement does not cover London. Funding for local highway maintenance in London is a matter for the Mayor and Greater London Authority.
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Local Transport Plan Settlement Capital Allocations for Local Road Maintenance £000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Darlington 933 1,329 1,398 Durham 5,240 8,555 9,103 Gateshead 1,533 1,533 1,533 Hartlepool 521 520 544 Middlesborough 492 877 734 Newcastle 3,657 3,657 3,657 North Tyneside 600 1,451 1,226 Northumberland 3,990 9,312 9,919 Redcar and Cleveland 660 1,568 1,621 South Tyneside 739 1,560 2,332 Stockton on Tees 566 1,194 1,283 Sunderland 2,117 2,638 2,770 Total for North East Region 21,048 34,194 36,120 Barnsley 2,453 2,670 2,829 Bradford 3,699 5,031 5,568 Calderdale 2,803 4,592 4,815 Doncaster 1,184 1,970 2,078 East Riding 2,254 5,898 4,861 Hull 1,461 1,501 1,461 Kirklees 4,870 6,163 6,405 Leeds 4,090 9,254 9,896 North East Lincolnshire 740 965 970 North Lincolnshire 1,556 2,468 2,598 North Yorkshire 5,740 13,449 14,361 Rotherham 1,809 3,124 3,297 Sheffield 3,518 3,518 3,582 Wakefield 2,772 3,568 3,762 York 712 1,095 1,155 Total for Yorkshire and Humberside Region 39,661 65,266 67,638 Birmingham 4,330 6,245 6,620 Coventry 1,173 1,232 1,317 Dudley 1,416 3,158 3,376 Herefordshire 2,372 4,348 4,539 Sandwell 2,453 3,558 2,453 Shropshire 3,885 7,982 8,548 Solihull 674 1,737 1,832 Staffordshire 4,554 8,675 9,315 Stoke on Trent 1,161 1,273 1,160 Telford/Wrekin 1,220 2,312 2,464 Walsall 2,242 2,964 3,072 Warwickshire 2,410 6,774 5,414 Wolverhampton 1,043 3,466 2,744 Worcestershire 3,161 7,184 7,366 Total for West Midlands Region 32,094 60,908 60,220 495W
Local Transport Plan Settlement Capital Allocations for Local Road Maintenance £000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 City of Derby 955 1,423 1,549 City of Leicester 1,948 2,764 4,316 Greater Nottingham 1,650 8,009 8,604 Derbyshire 2,880 11,034 11,711 Leicestershire 2,185 6,494 6,788 Lincolnshire 3,385 10,278 10,890 Northamptonshire 2,291 5,342 5,463 North Nottinghamshire 6,541 10,880 11,323 Rutland 407 751 783 Total for East Midlands Region 22,242 56,975 61,427 Bedfordshire 1,743 3,247 3,491 Cambridgeshire 2,817 6,967 7,437 Essex 5,170 13,925 15,001 Hertfordshire 4,467 10,083 10,586 Luton and Dunstable 461 819 862 Norfolk 5,203 19,247 18,973 Peterborough 1,082 1,765 1.843 Southend on Sea 696 1,608 1,742 Suffolk 4,472 13,467 11,808 Thurrock 597 1,146 1,201 Total for Eastern Region 26,708 72,274 72,944 Bath and North East Somerset 1,868 2,552 2,740 Bournemouth/Poole 841 1,662 1,744 Bristol 1,907 3,847 4,054 Cornwall 3,874 9,424 10,210 Devon 5,877 12,139 12,822 Dorset 1,645 5,807 6,218 Gloucestershire 4.551 10,076 10,812 North Somerset 895 3,173 2,437 Plymouth 1,815 2,324 2,481 Somerset 4,262 11,496 12,306 South Gloucestershire 1,276 3,343 3.505 Swindon 958 1,307 1,382 Torbay 379 1,161 1,208 Wiltshire 2,255 9,570 10,024 Total for South West Region 32,403 77,881 81.943 Bracknell 366 580 568 Brighton and Hove 1,113 1,126 1,199 Buckinghamshire 3,821 8,227 7,087 East Sussex 3,013 5,661 6,670 Hampshire 4,388 9,870 10,524 Isle of Wight 1,540 2,900 3,018 Kent 6,466 11,513 12,149 Medway Towns 757 934 990 Milton Keynes 1,279 2,069 2,194 Oxfordshire 5,793 8,045 8,013 Portsmouth 579 803 835 Reading 534 1,650 697 Slough 312 312 312 Southampton 581 1,085 1,152 Surrey 6,972 11,763 12,475 West Berkshire 900 1,285 1,379 West Sussex 2,320 6,389 6,813 Windsor 750 1,025 1,096 Wokingham 562 819 865 Total for South East Region 42,046 76,056 78,036 Blackburn 1,932 2,274 2,335 Blackpool 468 952 991 Bolton 2,089 5,102 5,236 Bury 1,245 1,929 2,002 Cheshire 8,956 11,535 12,204 Cumbria 5,544 9,173 9,884 Halton 2,893 2,893 2,893 Knowsley 710 1,038 1,090 Lancashire 6,096 16,630 17,782 Liverpool 2,152 4,184 3,991 Manchester 2,442 5,569 5,679 Oldham 1,448 1,784 1,887 Rochdale 1,496 2,677 1,751
Local Transport Plan Settlement Capital Allocations for Local Road Maintenance £000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Salford 1,008 1,871 1,746 Sefton 1,217 2,073 2,185 St. Helens 1,317 1,790 1,861 Stockport 1,108 1,815 1,905 Tameside 1,069 2,178 1,501 Trafford 884 1,127 1,213 Warrington 1,755 2,357 2,474 Wigan 1,394 3,420 3,559 Wirral 971 2,079 2,502 Total for North West Region 48,194 84,450 86,671 Total for England, excluding London 264,396 528,004 544,999 Notes:
- 1. The allocations for 2000–01 covered only principal roads and bridges. The allocations for 2001–02 and 2002–03 cover principal roads, non-principal roads, and bridges.
- 2. There is an element within the Standard Spending Assessment used to distribute Revenue Support Grant which covers revenue expenditure on local road maintenance, e.g. clearing snow, cleaning drains, grass cutting, etc.
- 3. These allocations are part of the overall Local Transport Plan settlement to be announced in December.
- 4. These figures do not include earmarked resources for ongoing major maintenance schemes in Bedfordshire, Devon, and Portsmouth or for new major maintenance schemes in Newcastle and Halton.
Funding for these schemes will amount to £7 million in 2001–02 and £10 million in 2002–03.