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Department for Transport: Annual Reports

Answer

‘Science, Research and Support Functions’ is an Estimate Line descriptor shown in the Statement of Parliamentary Supply within the 2024-25 Annual Report & Accounts. All costs recorded on this Estimate line are incurred by the Core department. A breakdown of the spending recorded in this Estimate Line for 2024-25 and 2023-24 is provided below.

Spending in 2024-25

	Resource DEL	Capital DEL
Business area	Amount £m	Amount £m
Public Transport & Local Group	11	11
Road Transport Group	16	4
Decarbonisation, Technology and Strategy Group	0	4
TOTAL	27	19

Individual programmes incurring more than £5m spending in 2024-25, were:

• Bus Open Data Service (£11m, Capital DEL). This is the Department for Transport’s national digital platform that enables bus operators and certain local authorities to meet their legal obligations to publish bus service data. https://www.bus-data.dft.gov.uk/
• Road statistics survey and collection (£7m, Resource DEL) https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/
• National Travel survey (£5m, Resource DEL)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-travel-survey-statistics

Spending in 2023-24

	Resource DEL	Capital DEL
Business area	Amount £m	Amount £m
Roads and Local Group	22	13
Decarbonisation, Technology and Strategy Group	6	6
Rail Strategy and Services Group	3	0
TOTAL	31	19

Individual programmes incurring more than £5m spending in 2023-24, were:

• Bus Open Data Service (£13m Capital DEL).
• Road statistics survey and collection (£7m Resource DEL).
• National Travel Survey (£5m, Resource DEL).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

125022

Session

2024-26

Subjects

Annual reports Department for Transport Research Science

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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