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Transport (Expenditure)

Volume 885: debated on Friday 7 February 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the estimated expenditure on local transport by each county in 1974–75; what is the level of expenditure accepted by him for each county in 1975–76; and what change this represents in each case over 1974–75.

The estimated expenditure for each county in England in 1975–76 accepted for transport supplementary grant is given in the following table. Comparable up-to-date estimates of transport expenditure in 1974–75 for each county are not yet available.Accepted expenditure 1975–76 at November 1974 prices:

£ million
GLC206·280
Greater Manchester42·853
Merseyside29·787
Tyne and Wear43·218
West Midlands52·140
South Yorkshire22·565
West Yorkshire42·870
Avon10·153
Bedfordshire8·069
Berkshire11·773
Buckinghamshire7·296
Cambridgeshire7·875
Cheshire17·342
Cleveland13·958
Cornwall4·629
Cumbria6·676
Derbyshire10·205
Devon15·743
Dorset7·025
Durham7·103
East Sussex8·872
Essex15·987
Gloucestershire5·753
Hampshire24·840
Hereford and Worcester11·971
Hertfordshire15·868
Humberside8·121
Isle of Wight1·720
Kent16·806
Lancashire15·298
Leicestershire8·577
Lincolnshire7·617
Norfolk7·796
Northamptonshire11·875
Northumberland6·280
North Yorkshire10·230
Nottinghamshire11·000
Oxfordshire5·701
Shropshire5·448
Somerset5·014
Staffordshire15·092

£ million

Suftolk6·394
Surrey11·312
Warwickshire6·739
West Sussex8·182
Wiltshire7·409
Total England827·462