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Regional Expenditure

Volume 169: debated on Tuesday 13 March 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the regional distribution of spending by his Department over the three most recent financial years.

[holding answer 12 March 1990]: Two thirds of the Department of Transport's own expenditure on transport is spent on the national roads system; that expenditure can be broken down between the Department's own administrative regions, as shown in table 1·20 of "Transport Statistics Great Britain". Transport supplementary grant, though paid to local authorities rather than regions, can be broken down according to the geographical location of those authorities in DTp regions. Statistics for the three most recent available financial years are shown in the table.The balance of central Government expenditure, as shown in table 7·1 chapter 7 of the "Government's Expenditure Plans 1990–91 to 1992–93" (CM 1007) is neither planned nor controlled on a regional basis, so a comparable breakdown cannot he made.

Regional expenditure on motorway and trunk roads by DTp region
1985–861986–871987–88
£ million£ million£ million
Northern24·024·553·1
Yorkshire and Humberside47·665·183·1
North West54·183·488·9
West Midlands117·1122·5116·1
East Midlands73·472·965·2
Eastern197·2171·2118·6
South West47·064·598·2
South East136·086·3183·8
London43·860·382·2

Notes:

1. Figures include some estimates

2. Sum of figures for England, differ from those voted in the Supply Estimates because of differences in sources.

Transport supplementary grant by DTp region

1986·87

1987·88

1988·89

£ million

£ million

£ million

Northern9·7610·7012·24
Yorkshire and Humberside14·4614·6912·91
North West23·3124·2815·15
West Midlands17·2118·7221·30
East Midlands12·9313·1312·03
Eastern5·277·526·15
South West14·3115·6819·05
South East34·4936·4540·37
London32·2738·7841·78

The sums involved are as follows:

£000s

Privatisation

1981–82

1982–83

1983–84

1984–85

1985–86

1986–87

1987–88

1988–89

11989–90

11990–91

Sales of Shares in National Freight Corporation151
Sale of Shares in Associated British Ports1,8092601,494
Sale of Shares in British Airways plc501,01267420,80411,364725703
Sale of Shares in BAA plc56441,1493,095171,500