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Public Transport

We have made and continue to make the point that we feel that the funding that the Government have allocated—£214 million this year, increasing in future, with a total budget of approximately £1 billion for a billion journeys—is adequate for the scheme. The problem is its allocation to local authorities and the way in which some local authorities pocket a surplus and others, such as Worthing, which my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) represents, lose out. Those in Surrey have a surplus and I am sure that, although the authorities that labour under a deficit are knocking on the Minister's door almost every day, the ones that have a surplus do not do that. It is important to have equitable funding. I am not sure, even after reading the report, how the Government have arrived at some of the figures. Are they simply good guesstimates?