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Local Government Finance: Cheshire

Volume 472: debated on Thursday 21 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what funding has been allocated by her Department, its associated agencies and non-departmental bodies to (a) Warrington and (b) Cheshire in each year since 1997; and what the purpose of the funding was in each case. (185589)

[holding answer 7 February 2008]: The following tables set out the funding allocated by the Department for Transport to Cheshire county council and Warrington borough council from 1997-98 to 2007-08 by purpose.

Cheshire

£000

1997-98

1998-99

1999-2000

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

Capital Highway Maintenance

5,184

3,912

5,630

8,956

11,535

13,204

10,786

12,572

9,893

8,781

14,636

Capital Integrated Transport

3,725

935

2,316

2,800

7,300

7,479

9,224

10,164

8,507

8,111

8,301

Major Schemes

6,833

7,100

3,200

100

Links to School

180

117.5

School Travel Plan co-ordinator

30

30

30

Workplace travel plan coordinator

30

30

30

Rural bus subsidy grant

612

612

612

782

895

914

947

985

1,009

1,033

Rural bus challenge

16

632

945

620

552

Urban bus challenge

399

Kickstart (Bus Services)

998

Mixed Priority Route Road Safety Demonstration Project

1,000

1,000

Specific Road Safety Grant

1,762

Cheshire Safety Camera Partnership

1,821

2,116

1,896

1

Digital breath testing screening equipment

33

Detrunked Roads (Resource)

1,652

1,831

1,877

2,013

2,158

2,212

Detrunked Roads (Capital)

2,099

131

3,500

3,750

3,245

3,695

Total funding

15,742

12,575

12,390

12,368

20,722

26,009

26,719

32,356

28,042

23,304

31,789.5

Warrington

£000

1997-982

1998-99

1999-2000

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

Capital Highway Maintenance

1,312

1,474

1,755

2,357

2,474

2,837

2,991

2,729

2,649

3,493

Capital Integrated Transport

222

704

900

2,000

2,168

2,177

2,952

2,000

1,920

2,064

Major Schemes

1,534

345

993

1,683

1,973

1,162

Cycle Projects Fund

1

Local Authority Cycle Training Grants

35

Rural bus subsidy grant

60

60

60

76

87

89

108

112

115

118

Rural bus challenge

5

60

Specific Road Safety Grant

392

Detrunked Roads (Resource)

14

14

14

15

15

16

Detrunked Roads (Capital)

827

Total funding

3,133

2,298

2,715

4,778

6,563

6,801

8,038

6,018

4,699

6,118

1 To be published shortly

2 Cheshire county council was the local highway authority for Warrington (and Halton) up to and including 1997-98

Information on grants provided by the Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies is held by the bodies themselves. This information is not held centrally.