HC Deb 21 October 2002 vol 391 cc25-7W
Mr. Breed

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much of the(a) Rural Bus Subsidy Grant and (b) Rural Bus Challenge was spent in (i) 2001–02 and (ii) 2002–03 to date, broken down by county. [75186]

Shire Counties RBC payments in 2001–02 2001–02 payments Total RBSG Grant paid in 2001–02 RBC payments in 2002–03 2002–03 payments RBSG Payments in 2002–03
Bedfordshire 116,791 565,644 151,573 258,969
Buckinghamshire 172,565 672,000 12,330 328,035
Cambridgeshire 0 1,009,112 0 462,003
Cheshire 0 782,514 140,807 358,259
Cornwall 462,000 1,559,210 343,000 713,855
Cumbria 343,500 1,222,506 0 559,701
Derbyshire 200,000 911,879 103,875 417,487
Devon 271,000 1,799,210 272,000 823,735
Dorset 201,092 739,801 130,508 338,704
Durham 0 771,913 0 353,406
East Sussex 466,888 714,092 150,000 326,934
Essex 571,805 1,341,087 347,500 613,992
Gloucestershire 73,956 1,013,984 197,500 464,234
Hampshire 521,260 1,142,167 127,340 522,920
Hertfordshire 87,692 566,589 620,935 259,402
Kent 368,000 1,647,217 278,000 754,147
Lancashire 396,914 959,529 277,856 439,302
Leicestershire 279,540 710,177 703,421 325,141
Lincolnshire 39,708 1,525,138 1,351,445 698,256
Norfolk 75,055 2,035,846 165,000 932,074
North Yorkshire 509,000 1,750,000 701,522 806,913
Northamptonshire 101,075 889,715 716,699 407,340
Northumberland 372,600 608,253 286,000 278,477
Nottinghamshire 185,764 667,430 0 305,570
Oxfordshire 373,579 1,183,588 0 541,884
Shropshire 238,176 804,914 0 368,515
Somerset 94,817 1,299,640 333,439 595,016
Staffordshire 97,548 875,000 92,435 473,041
Suffolk 186,471 1,534,342 0 702,470
Surrey 404,025 779,797 0 357,015
Warwickshire 135,405 761,540 0 348,657
West Sussex 223,773 739,752 0 338,682
Wiltshire 481,080 1,003,848 23,000 459,593
Worcestershire 757,645 862,568 592,480 394,911
Passenger Transport Authorities
Greater Manchester 0 130,160 0 77,357
Merseyside 0 106,590 0 48,800
South Yorkshire 318,500 432,581 1005617 198,049
Tyne and Wear 630,050 104,768 0 47,966
West Midlands 0 110,837 0 50,745
West Yorkshire 208,928 709,628 0 324,890
Unitaries
Bath & NE Somerset 40,000 178,731 150,000 81,829
Blackburn with Darwen 0 33,000 0 22,815
Bracknell Forest 0 51,125 0 23,407
Bristol 0 8,328 0 3,813
Darlington 0 61,742 0 28,267
East Riding 166,863 682,342 592,271 312,397
Halton 0 11,810 0 7,416
Hartlepool 0 21,544 45,000 9,864
Herefordshire 41,518 667,144 179,077 305,439
Isle of Wight 0 203,377 0 93,112
Medway 0 91,533 0 51,139
Middlesbrough 0 12,542 0 6,748

Mr. Jamieson

The table below shows all payments made to County Councils, Unitary Authorities and Passenger Transport Authorities under the Rural Bus Subsidy Grant (RBSG) and Rural Bus Challenge (RBC) schemes during 2001–02 and 2002–03 to date. Total allocations to authorities for RBSG in 2001–02 were £41.5 million and for 2002–03 are £47.5 million. The payments shown for RBC schemes relate to projects that were approved in different years since the RBC competitions started in 1998. Further payments will be made under both RBSG and RBC schemes during the remainder of 2002–03.

Shire Counties RBC payments in 2001–02 2001–02 payments Total RBSG Grant Paid in 2001–02 RBC payments in 2002–03 2002–03 payments RBSG Payments in 2002–03
Milton Keynes 101,965 91,265 124,741 41,798
NE Lincolnshire 0 54,463 0 24,935
North Lincolnshire 114,313 328,744 57,157 150,509
North Somerset 0 150,000 0 77,669
Peterborough 0 107,313 0 49,131
Plymouth 141,400 12,139 73,400 5,704
Poole 0 0 0 4,338
Redcar & Cleveland 20,000 72,142 0 33,029
Rutland 0 136,644 0 62,560
South Gloucestershire 80,000 244,422 0 111,904
Stockton-on-Tees 12,000 43,201 0 19,779
Stoke-on-Trent 0 6,925 0 3,170
Swindon 0 58,300 0 32,606
Telford and The Wrekin 184,000 97,107 742,895 44,459
Thurrock 97,000 48,748 0 22,318
Torbay 111,340 8,488 0 4,901
Warrington 26,000 76,161 0 34,869
West Berkshire 0 297,015 67,806 135,983
Windsor & Maidenhead 0 64,592 0 29,572
Wokingham 0 98,880 0 45,270
York 95,200 93,491 0 42,803
Totals 11,197,801 41,157,824 11,156,628 19,000,000