§ Mr. David TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 15 February 2001,Official Report, column 220W, if he will make a statement on the results of the latest round of the rural bus challenge competition, and on the allocations to local authorities. [151774]
§ Mr. HillFollowing careful consideration of the 137 bids submitted by local authorities to the Rural Bus Challenge 2000, on 19 February we announced approval for the 51 projects as listed. Funding for the successful bids will total up to £21.2 million.
635WThat announcement also detailed increased Local Authority Rural Bus Subsidy Grant allocations for 200–02, totalling £41.5 million and indicative allocations
Rural bus challenge 2000 Authority Project name Award total (£) Bedfordshire The Potton Area 'Countryside Link' Project 555,575 Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Rural Links 260,000 City of York Enhanced Connexions 235,858 Cornwall The DIRECT Project 845,000 Cumbria (North West Partnership) Clubcard—Smartcard Vision Up to 800,000 Derbyshire Southern Derbyshire Rural Access Initiative (continuation) 600,000 Devon Life in the Bus Lane—North Devon (Buses are Cool) 300,000 Dorset Blackmore Vale Accessible Community Transport Scheme 462,000 East Riding Howdenshire Community Transport Partnership 400,000 East Sussex Moving Forward—Community Buses for Rural Transport Partnership 773,820 Essex Dengie Plus: Building on Success 1,113,805 Greater Manchester Expansion of Rural Shared Taxi 288,000 Hampshire Testbed 990,165 Herefordshire Transport Co-ordination Project 129,452 Hertfordshire HAD—"Out of Hours Transport Services" 209,781 Kent Deal Area Responsive Transport (DART) 453,000 Lancashire Carnforth Connect 660,500 Leicestershire and Rutland Leicestershire and Rutland Cross County 1,619,000 Lincolnshire Tardis 547,000 Milton Keynes Nippa Service 160,154 Norfolk North Walsham "Bitternlink" 276,528 Leisure and Learning Links 250,825 North Lincolnshire A1077 Villages, Bus Service Route 350 114,313 North Yorkshire Travelinks 602,000 South Selby Taxibus 267,000 Stationlink and Sherburn area village bus 253,000 Northamptonshire Corby Rural Dial-a-Ride 50,900 Northumberland Phone and Go 731,700 Nottinghamshire Renew Retford—NEWark 492,000 Plymouth Enhanced Rural Service Access and Quality 214,800 Redcar and Cleveland Improving Access Arrangements to Housing in Skelton 20,000 Shropshire Rural Real-Time bus passenger information project 282,697 Somerset South Somerset 182,344 South Gloucestershire Rural Community Transport 348,000 South Yorkshire Bradfield and Worrell 611,714 Clayton-with-Frickley Taxibus 62,705 Staffordshire Moorlands Traveller East Project 118,000 Stockton-on-Tees Thorpe Thewles-Stillington Taxi 12,000 Suffolk Bike and Bus Butty 275,424 Surrey Waverley Transport Solutions 404,025 Telford and Wrekin Wiekin Connect—The Lawley Express Partnership 184,000 Thurrock The Rural Bus Club 288,270 Torbay Continued Development of the 'Hospital Hopper' Project 81,800 Tyne and Wear Regional Communication Infrastructure/TransStop 560,150 Warwickshire Stratford on Avon Accessible Community Buses 159,792 West Berkshire Demand responsive services—Extension to Taxibus Service 101,500 West Midlands The Heart of England Project 417,000 West Sussex One Step Beyond 313,388 West Yorkshire The Hebden Bridger 917,320 Wiltshire Bradenstoke and Bradford on Avon A2B 213,076 Worcestershire Worcester Easylink 994,000 Up to 21,203,381 636W
Rural bus subsidy grant £ Local authority Amount allocated 2000–01 2001–02 allocation Indicative allocation 2002–03 Indicative allocation 2003–04 Counties Bedfordshire 442,974 565,644 647,424 661,054 Buckinghamshire 561,112 716,497 820,087 837,352 Cambridgeshire 790,268 1,009,112 1,155,007 1,179,323 Cheshire 612,812 782,514 895,648 914,504 Cornwall 1,221,068 1,559,210 1,784,638 1,822,209 Cumbria 957,384 1,222,506 1,399,254 1,428,712 Derbyshire 714,122 911,879 1,043,717 1,065,690 Devon 1,409,020 1,799,210 2,059,337 2,102,692 totalling £47.5 million for 2002–03 and £48.5 million for 2003–04. The full list is as follows:
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Rural bus subsidy grant £ Local authority Amount allocated in 2000–01 2001–02 allocation Indicative allocation 2002–03 Indicative allocation 2002–03 Dorset 579,362 739,801 846,760 864,586 Durham 604,510 771,913 883,515 902,115 East Sussex 559,229 714,092 817,335 834,542 Essex 1,050,249 1,341,087 1,534,979 1,567,295 Gloucestershire 794,084 1,013,984 1,160,584 1,185,018 Hampshire 894,468 1,142,167 1,307,299 1,334,822 Hertfordshire 443,714 566,589 648,505 662,158 Kent 1,289,989 1,647,217 1,885,369 1,925,061 Lancashire 751,438 959,529 1,098,256 1,121,377 Leicestershire 556,163 710,177 812,854 829,966 Lincolnshire 1,194,385 1,525,138 1,745,640 1,782,390 Norfolk 1,594,337 2,035,846 2,330,185 2,379,242 North Yorkshire 1,380,246 1,762,468 2,017,283 2,059,752 Northamptonshire 696,765 889,715 1,018,349 1,039,788 Northumberland 476,343 608,253 696,194 710,850 Nottinghamshire 522,686 667,430 763,926 780,008 Oxfordshire 926,906 1,183,588 1,354,709 1,383,229 Shropshire 630,354 804,914 921,287 940,682 Somerset 1,017,790 1,299,640 1,487,539 1,518,856 Staffordshire 809,149 1,033,221 1,182,602 1,207,499 Suffolk 1,201,593 1,534,342 1,756,174 1,793,147 Surrey 610,684 779,797 892,538 911,328 Warwickshire 596,387 761,540 871,643 889,993 West Sussex 579,324 739,752 846,704 864,530 Wiltshire 786,146 1,003,848 1,148,983 1,173,172 Worcestershire 675,505 862,568 987,277 1,008,061 Metropolitan areas Greater Manchester 132,321 168,964 193,392 197,464 Merseyside 83,474 106,590 122,000 124,569 South Yorkshire 338,768 432,581 495,122 505,546 Tyne and Wear 82,047 104,768 119,915 122,439 West Midlands 86,800 110,837 126,862 129,532 West Yorkshire 555,733 709,628 812,225 829,325 Unitaries Bath and North East Somerset 139,970 178,731 204,572 208,878 Blackburn with Darwen 39,026 49,833 57,038 58,239 Bracknell Forest 40,038 51,125 58,517 59,749 Bristol 6,522 8,328 9,532 9,733 Darlington 48,352 61,742 70,668 72,156 East Riding 534,364 682,342 780,994 797,436 Halton 12,685 16,198 18,540 18,930 Hartlepool 16,872 21,544 24,659 25,178 Herefordshire 522,462 667,144 763,598 779,674 Isle of Wight 159,271 203,377 232,781 237,681 Medway 87,475 111,699 127,848 130,540 Middlesbrough 11,542 14,738 16,869 17,224 Milton Keynes 71,496 91,295 104,494 106,694 North East Lincolnshire 42,652 54,463 62,338 63,650 North Lincolnshire 257,450 328,744 376,273 384,195 North Somerset 132,855 169,646 194,173 198,261 Peterborough 84,040 107,313 122,828 125,414 Plymouth 9,756 12,458 14,259 14,559 Poole 7,421 9,476 10,846 11,074 Redcar and Cleveland 56,497 72,142 82,573 84,311 Rutland 107,010 136,644 156,399 159,692 South Gloucestershire 191,415 244,422 279,760 285,650 Stockton-on-Tees 33,832 43,201 49,447 50,488 Stoke-on-Trent 5,423 6,925 7,926 8,093 Swindon 55,773 71,218 81,514 83,230 Telford and The Wrekin 76,048 97,107 111,147 113,487 Thurrock 38,176 48,748 55,796 56,970 Torbay 8,384 10,706 12,254 12,512 Warrington 59,644 76,161 87,172 89,007 West Berkshire 232,602 297,015 339,957 347,114 Windsor and Maidenhead 50,584 64,592 73,930 75,487 Wokingham 77,436 98,880 113,176 115,558 York 73,216 93,491 107,008 109,261 Total 32,499.998 41,500,000 47,500,000 48,500,000