§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his answers of 7 February 2002,Official Report, column 1108W, refs 33767 and 33769, on the transport 10-year financial envelope, if he will set out the changes to the planned expenditure envelope which result in the overall increase and the amount of the increase attributable to each change. [35741]
§ Mr. Jamieson[holding answer 28 February 2002]: The latest 10-Year Plan total of £181.9 billion announced by the Secretary of State in an oral and written answer on 29 January 2002, Official Report, columns 149-152 and 175W, took account of a number of changes to the 10-Year Plan expenditure numbers. The main changes were the following:
The effect of these changes is summarised in the revised version of Table A3 from 'Transport 2010: The 10 Year Plan' that I referred to in my answer to the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) on 25 February 2002, Official Report, column 785W, and which has been placed in the Libraries of the House.
- 1. The fact that the public expenditure numbers for 2001/02 reflect actual spending between April and December 2001 (the first nine months of the Plan) and take account of the latest outturn projection for that year;
- 2. reductions of £38/118/183 million for the years 2001/02 to 2003/04 as a result of internal DETR reallocations immediately following SR2000.
- 3. a transfer of £2.3 billion from the 10 Year Plan Unallocated Fund to Railways;
- 4. £1.5 billion of additional provision for Railways;
- 5. £462 million of additional provision for Railways to cover a shortfall in Railtrack's freight income;
- 6. a transfer of £77 million from London to Railways to cover he SRA's contribution to CrossRail development costs;
- 7. the inclusion of £290 million of unused provision for Railways carried forward as end-year flexibility from 2000–01 to 2001–02;
- 8. no changes have been made to the private investment numbers.