The Shrewsbury North West Relief Road would be a local road scheme for which Shropshire county council is responsible. As this is not a Highways Agency scheme it is not affected by any future plans for <?notus-xml column=111?> the agency. Shropshire county council and the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership are responsible for planning this scheme and for bidding for any funding for it from the Local Growth Fund in 2014. The Secretary of State for Transport, my right hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire Dales (Mr McLoughlin), met with the hon. Member, Shropshire county council and local business representatives on 15 October 2013, when the delegation outlined the scheme. The Secretary of State has subsequently written to the hon. Member setting out how local schemes such as the Shrewsbury North West Relief Road will be funded in the future via the Local Growth Fund. As this is a local scheme the Department for Transport has made no assessment of this scheme. In 2014-15, the Government is allocating £792 million to local highway authorities for highways maintenance through the Highways Maintenance Block and £450 million for small scale transport projects through the Integrated Transport (IT) block. From these funding streams Shropshire council will receive £13.2 million including the top up announced in the 2012 autumn statement for highways maintenance and £2.385 million for small scale transport projects. Both IT Block and Highways Maintenance Block are allocated according to a needs-based formula and are not ring-fenced, allowing local authorities to spend their allocations according to their own priorities, It is therefore for Shropshire council to decide how it allocates its resources and which road improvement projects to support.