The Department is providing the following revenue grants to Kent county council in 2007-08:
Grant Amount (£) Urban bus challenge 35,893 Kickstart 138,729 Rural bus subsidy 2,276,481 Road safety grant 2,540,374 Detrunked roads 259,163 Total 5,250,640
In addition it has contributed half of the revenue funding for school travel advisers totalling £189,000 and paid to Kent by Department for Communities and Local Government in area-based grant. It also contributed £95,500 for walking to school initiatives to the Department for Children, Schools and Families schools standards fund, which DCSF paid to Kent county council for onward transmission to schools, it also funds Sustrans to manage the 2007-08 Links to Schools programme and Kent county council has been allocated £40,000 for 2007-08.
Most revenue funding support for day to day transport services (such as highways maintenance, supporting bus services and concessionary fares) is included in the revenue support grant for Kent county, Thanet district and Dover district councils, administered by CLG.
The Department has made the following capital allocations funded by supported borrowing and direct capital grants available to Kent county council in 2007-08:
Direct capital grant Supported borrowing Integrated Transport 4,100 7,593 Highways Capital Maintenance 9,514 15,530 East Kent Access Phase One 500 0 Road Safety Grant 565.218 0 Total 14,679.218 23,123
The Department has not allocated funding to Thanet or Dover district councils in 2007-08.