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Written question asked by David Ruffley (Conservative) on Tuesday, 8 March 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 10 March 2011. It was answered by Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 24 March 2011 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority for road improvement in each year since 1997.
Answer

The Department for Transport provides local authorities outside of London with Integrated Transport Block funding for small scale transport schemes; Highway Maintenance Block funding for maintenance of local highways; and Major Project funding for transport schemes over £5 million. Integrated Transport Block and Major Project funding is not solely dedicated to road improvements and Highway Maintenance Block funding is for structures (e.g. bridges and street lighting) as well as roads.Local authority funding allocations for the Integrated Transport and Highway Maintenance blocks for the period 2000-01 to 2010-11 are available on the Department's website at:"http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/localauthorities/funding/fundingstreams/"Different funding arrangements were in place for both funding streams before 2000-01.Major scheme funding by local authority in relation to road projects for the period 2006-07 to 2009-10 is outlined in the following table. Data before 2006-07 is not available.

Major scheme spend
£000
Authority 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
Barnsley metropolitan borough council 0 0 4,156 12,456
Bedfordshire county council 0 2,000 0 0
Birmingham city council 15,446 5,950 2,518 10,395
Buckinghamshire county council 22,658 11,705 0 0
Central Bedfordshire council 8,825 6,655 2,547 171
Cheshire East borough council 0 0 4,881 24,181
Darlington borough council 2,153 6,199 4,070 0
Derby city council 2,513 0 2,460 9,499
Derbyshire county council 11,960 3,575 8,900 425
Devon county council 11,410 1,124 1,000 0
Dorset county council 0 0 17,628 28,831
Dudley metropolitan borough council 2,126 8,819 7,320 4,559
Durham county council 300 6,069 4,084 347
Essex county council 0 1,200 0 4,600
Hertfordshire county council 3,250 1,300 763 602
Kent county council 10,000 1,000 374 17,956
Leeds city council 28,484 12,557 8,725 263
Leicestershire county council 0 6,341 9,662 39
Lincolnshire county council 5,825 7,975 29,937 33,436
Liverpool city council 0 0 0 4,289
Medway council 200 200 0 0
Middlesbrough council 0 0 6,335 5,929
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne city 2,809 839 200 200
North Yorkshire county council 8,051 14,967 13,318 0
Northamptonshire county council 6,200 0 0 0
Northumberland county council 2,710 257 183 5
Nottingham city council 2,800 0 0 0
Poole borough council 0 0 0 2,425
Reading borough council 0 0 31,374 27,597
Rotherham metropolitan borough council 2,060 2,405 563 1,102
Rutland county council 7,811 0 0 0
Salford city council 847 0 0 0
Sandwell metropolitan borough council 0 5,000 8,507 8,349
Sheffield city council 3,700 0 0 0
Somerset county council 0 0 0 2,469
South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive 933 1,064 2,000 0
St Helens metropolitan borough council 5,800 0 91 879
Staffordshire county council 8,800 4,300 600 0
Stockton-on-Tees borough council 200 400 0 0
Stoke-on-Trent city council 1,856 3,306 0 0
Suffolk county council 0 0 6,827 5,173
Sunderland city council 8,615 2,445 0 0
Wakefield metropolitan borough council 0 6,054 17,654 5,627
Warwickshire county council 5,981 11,254 12,685 13
Total 194,323 134,959 209,361 211,817

Separate arrangements are in place for local transport funding in London.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
45839; 525 c1223-5W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Roads Repairs and maintenance
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk