The Government have specifically allocated funding for rail franchise payments, local transport capital funding and some other transport revenue grants to Merseytravel (as shown in tables 1 to 3 respectively, with totals in table 4). Rail figures prior to franchising (i.e. prior to 1997-98) are not readily available.
All four tables show the cash allocated, the cash per head of population (based on the Office for National Statistics’ population figure of 1,367,000 for 2005) and the funding per head of population expressed in terms of 1987 prices (using the retail price index).
Most revenue support for Merseytravel for public transport (other than rail franchise payments) is included in the revenue support grant allocated to the district councils, on which Merseytravel levies. This is not included in the figures because the Government does not specify how much of the revenue support for the district councils should be for Merseytravel.
(£ per head) Cash (£000) Cash Funding 1987 prices 1997-98 72,025 52.69 33.45 1998-99 65,702 48.06 29.50 1999-2000 60,389 44.18 26.71 2000-01 58,331 42.67 25.06 2001-02 88,161 64.49 37.21 2002-03 90,845 66.46 37.72 2003-04 91,731 67.1 37.01 2004-05 83,111 60.8 32.56 2005-06 72,561 53.08 27.65 2006-07 86,915 63.58 32.10 2007-08 90,337 66.08 31.99
(£ per head) Cash (£000) Cash Funding 1987 prices 1993-94 14,908 10.91 7.75 1994-95 6,812 4.98 3.46 1995-96 8,626 6.31 4.23 1996-97 5,679 4.15 2.12 1997-98 9,466 6.92 4.40 1998-99 7,190 5.26 3.23 1999-2000 8,423 6.16 3.73 2000-01 8,286 6.06 3.56 2001-02 15,800 11.56 6.67 2002-03 18,343 13.42 7.62 2003-04 21,797 15.95 8.79 2004-05 30,574 22.37 11.98 2005-06 19,679 14.40 7.50 2006-07 17,012 12.44 6.28 2007-08 18,903 13.83 6.69
(£ per head) Cash (£000) Cash Funding 1987 prices 1993 to 1997-98 0 0.00 0.00 1998-99 83 0.06 0.04 1999-2000 83 0.06 0.04 2000-01 83 0.06 0.04 2001-02 320 0.23 0.14 2002-03 1,021 0.75 0.42 2003-04 1,259 0.92 0.51 2004-05 1,117 0.82 0.44 2005-06 415 0.30 0.16 2006-07 327 0.24 0.12 2007-08 685 0.50 0.24
(£ per head) Cash (£000) Cash Funding 1987 prices 1997-98 81,491 59.61 37.85 1998-99 72,975 53.38 32.77 1999-2000 68,895 50.40 30.47 2000-01 66,700 48.79 28.65 2001-02 104,281 76.28 44.02 2002-03 110,209 80.62 45.76 2003-04 114,787 83.97 46.32 2004-05 114,802 83.98 44.98 2005-06 92,655 67.78 35.30 2006-07 104,254 76.26 38.50 2007-08 109,925 80.41 38.92