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Roads: Safety Measures

Answer

The Government have provided specific road safety grants for road safety partnerships of £1.098 million for Cornwall and £107.795 million across England in 2007-08. The grants replaced a scheme, in operation from 2000-01 to 2006-07, for the local use of income generated by safety camera partnerships.Since 2000-01, Central Government have provided capital funding support for local authorities to invest in road safety within the integrated transport block, which can be used for a wide range of investment in transport according to local authorities' policies and priorities. Typically local authorities spend about one fifth of their integrated transport block on road safety projects. Prior to 2000-01 funding specifically for investment in road safety was provided by central Government. The figures for Cornwall and England (excluding London from 2001-02) are shown in tables 1 and 2, as far back as 1991-92.The funding is provided to the county council for the whole of its area and it is for the county council to determine distribution between local areas. Figures before 1991-92 cannot be made available except at a disproportionate cost.

Table 1: integrated transport block
£ million
	Cornwall	England
2000-01	2.957	250
2001-02	5.496	543
2002-03	5.915	565
2003-04	5.820	612
2004-05	7.073	658
2005-06	8.299	553
2006-07	10.662	547
2007-08	10.114	571

Table 2: funding for local safety schemes
£ million
	Cornwall	England
1991-92	0.250	31
1992-93	0.390	43
1993-94	0.390	50
1994-95	0.369	50
1995-96	0.590	50
1996-97	0.609	55
1997-98	0.575	60
1998-99	0.494	50
1999/2000	0.922	60

In addition local authorities receive revenue support for road safety services via formula grants such as revenue support grant, which they may use at their discretion on initiatives such as the promotion of road safety awareness, education or publicity in schools. The Department for Transport also supplies publicity and education materials to local authorities and schools on request, free of charge.The Government have also provided some smaller grants to local authorities, for example for road safety demonstration projects, although none in Cornwall. The Government directly fund road safety measures on trunk roads, although this funding cannot be disaggregated to county level.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

467 c851-3W; 166716

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Safety Roads

Link

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