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Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Answer

Mr. Swinney: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list (a) total expenditure and (b) expenditure by programme by his Department in Scotland on areas covered by the exception under (i) E.1, (ii) E.2 and (iii) E.3 of Head E in Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998. [63805] Mr. Meale: [holding answer 15 December 1998]: Expenditure by the Department in 1997-98 on research and development, grants and consultancies related to road safety, which is the subject of the exception listed in Head E1 of Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998, was £4.2m. The Department does not record separately how much of this expenditure takes place in Scotland. In 1997-98, the Department undertook the following programme expenditure{1} on grants relating to railway services which are the subject of exceptions listed in Head E2 of Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998; £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. DETR expenditure Total GB Scotland Payments by the Office of Passenger Rail 1,425 {2}136 Franchising to train operating companies Freight Facilities Grant 8 {3}nil Track Access Grant 21 not separately recorded _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} These figures include any expenditure incurred in relation to those areas listed in Schedule 5, Head E2 (a-c), to which the exception does not apply, on which separate information is not recorded. {2} Payments made to Scotrail. {3} Freight Facilities Grants in Scotland paid by Scottish Office.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

63805; 322 c543W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Grants Public expenditure Railways Scotland Safety Roads Research Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Legislation

Scotland Act 1998

Contains statistics

Yes