The Government have provided specific road safety grants of £372,868 for North East Lincolnshire council and £427,793 for North Lincolnshire council in 2007-08. The grants replaced a scheme, in operation from 2000-01 to 2006-07, for the local use of income generated by safety camera partnerships.
Central Government have provided financial support for local authorities to invest in road safety within the integrated transport block, which can be used for a wide range of investment in transport according to local authorities’ policies and priorities. Typically local authorities spend about one fifth of their integrated transport block on road safety projects. The figures for North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire are shown in table 1.
£ million N.E. Lincolnshire N. Lincolnshire 2001-02 2.1 1.2 2002-03 4.7 2.2 2003-04 3.6 2.9 2004-05 3.22 3.156 2005-06 2.0 2.7 2006-07 2.185 1.67 2007-08 2.231 1.795
In addition local authorities receive support for road safety services via unhypothecated formula grant (including revenue support grant).