To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the number of park-and-ride schemes for which each local authority bid for funding under the transport policy and programmes system for 1998–99, indicating in each case the amount of money bid for; and if he will list by local authority, the number of schemes which received funding under the transport policy and programmes system for 1998–99, indicating in each case the amount of money allocated. [34522]
All the available information is contained in the table. Only park-and-ride schemes that individually cost £;2 million or more received scheme-specific allocations for 1998–99. Local authorities also have the freedom to pursue schemes below that value, using the block allocations they receive for packages of transport measures. Under the package approach they are not required to specify before the start of a financial year the schemes they will pursue using those allocations. So
| Bids and allocations for park-and-ride schemes 1998–99 Major schemes (cost £;2 million or more) | ||||
| £;000 | ||||
| Authority | Total bid | Number of schemes bid for | Allocation | Number funded |
| Cheshire | 1,650 | 1 | 1,500 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 547 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Norfolk | 1,869 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 4,256 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Minor works (under £;2 million) | ||||
| £;000 | ||||
| Authority | Total bid | Number of schemes bid for | Block allocations for transport packages | P and R schemes within accepted packages |
| Bedfordshire | 870 | 2 | 900 | 2 |
| Birmingham | 150 | 1 | 112,675 | 1 |
| Blackburn | 200 | 1 | 310 | 1 |
| Bournemouth | 500 | 1 | 223 | 1 |
| Bradford | 140 | 2 | 2800 | 2 |
| Brent | 85 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cambridgeshire | 900 | 2 | 1,500 | 2 |
| Cornwall | 550 | 1 | 500 | 1 |
| Coventry | 725 | 1 | 112,675 | 1 |
| Derby | 500 | 1 | 450 | 1 |
| Derbyshire | 90 | 1 | 167 | 0 |
| Devon | 646 | 7 | 800 | 7 |
| Gloucestershire | 4 | 1 | 700 | 1 |
| Greater Manchester PTE | 40 | 1 | 38,750 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 1,000 | 1 | 883 | 1 |
| Kent | 250 | 2 | 1,215 | 2 |
| Knowsley | 50 | 1 | 410,000 | 1 |
| Lancashire | 30 | 1 | 990 | 1 |
| Leeds | 50 | 1 | 28,000 | 1 |
| Lewisham | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Lincolnshire | 75 | 1 | 300 | 1 |
| Medway Towns | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Norfolk | 170 | 1 | 1,000 | 1 |
| North Yorkshire | 185 | 3 | 300 | 3 |
| Nottingham | 39 | 3 | 754 | 3 |
| Nottinghamshire | 158 | 1 | 779 | 1 |
| Oldham | 50 | 1 | 38,750 | 1 |
| Oxfordshire | 48 | 1 | 1,500 | 1 |
| Plymouth City | 200 | 1 | 750 | 1 |
| Poole | 30 | 1 | 177 | 1 |
| Rochdale | 10 | 1 | 38,750 | 1 |
| Rotherham | 200 | 1 | 56,125 | 1 |
| Sefton | 150 | 1 | 410,000 | 1 |
| Sheffield | 50 | 1 | 56,125 | 1 |
| Shropshire | 200 | 1 | 700 | 1 |
| Surrey | 235 | 2 | 650 | 2 |
| Swindon | 929 | 2 | 750 | 2 |
| Torbay | 371 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Tyne and Wear PTE | 100 | 1 | 64,250 | 1 |
| West Midlands PTE | 2,963 | 9 | 112,675 | 9 |
| Wiltshire | 1,802 | 1 | 250 | 1 |
| Wirral | 50 | 1 | 959 | 1 |
| Wolverhampton | 350 | 2 | 112,675 | 2 |
| Worcestershire | 161 | 3 | 350 | 1 |
| 1allocation for West Midlands joint package | ||||
| 2allocation for West Yorks joint package | ||||
| 3allocation for Greater Manchester joint package | ||||
| 4allocation for Merseyside joint package | ||||
| 5allocation for South Yorkshire joint package | ||||
| 6allocation for Tyne and Wear joint package | ||||
except for the single major scheme shown, the figures in the right hand column of the table indicate only the schemes that authorities could pursue if they wished.