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Roads: Finance

Volume 472: debated on Thursday 6 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which road schemes in Gravesham have been paid for by funds raised from the Dartford River Crossing; and how much such funding was spent on these schemes in each of the last five years. (187077)

The Transport Act 2000 requires that all net revenues from the charging scheme at Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing are spent on transport. Revenues therefore increase the funding available for investment by the Department of Transport. This has helped to ensure delivery, for example, of schemes benefiting users of the Crossing, such as major improvements to the A2.

Since 2003, when the charging scheme was introduced, the Department has made available £1 million per year to Kent county council, and between £0.75 million and £1 million per year to Thurrock council, to help deliver local transport projects. This is in recognition of the impact of the Crossing on local residents. This funding is in addition to the regular local transport block allocations for Kent county council (which in 2007-08 totalled £36.7 million) and support for local authority major schemes, such as Kent Fastrack.

Kent county council's financial returns to the Department do not include a full breakdown of its actual expenditure between district areas, so it is not possible to provide figures for Kent's actual expenditure on roads in Gravesham district.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the latest ministerially-approved costs are of road schemes in the Highways Agency's Major Roads programme (a) in total and (b) broken down by individual scheme. (188495)

The following table lists all schemes in the Highways Agency's programme of Major schemes which were not opened to traffic as of 21 February 2008.

Scheme name

Latest ministerial approved estimates (£ million)

A2 Bean-Cobham Widening Phase 2

122

A11 Fiveways to Thetford

60

M6 Carlisle to Guardsmill

175

A14 Haughley New St to Stowmarket Improvement

32

A3 Hindhead Improvement

371

A38 Dobwalls Bypass

42

A595 Parton - Lillyhall Improvement

35

A1 Peterborough Blyth (North and South)

83

M62 J6 Improvement

38

A46 Newark - Widmerpool Improvement

317

A5117/A550 Deeside Park Junctions Improvement

43

A419 Blunsdon

65

A66 Temple Sowerby

40

A1 Dishforth to Barton

325

A1 Bramham - Wetherby (including Wetherby Bypass)

61

M40/A404 Handy Cross Junction Imp

13

A47 Blofield to North Burlingham Dualling

15

A66 Long Newton GSJ

12

A69 Haydon Bridge Bypass

26

M1 J19/M6

123

A14 Ellington to Fen Ditton

944

A57/A628 Mottram - Hollingworth – Tintwhistle

184

A45/A46 Tollbar End

57

M1 J6A to J10 Widening

289

M1 J10 to J1 3 Widening

601

A19/A1067 Seaton Burn

29

A19/A184 Testos Roundabout

21

A5 - M1 Link (Dunstable Northern Bypass)

124

A421 Bedford to M1 Junction 13

171

A21 Tonbridge to Pembury

65

M40 Junction 15 (Longbridge Roundabout)

71

A590 High and Low Newton Bypass

35

M20 Junction 10a

46

A27 Southerham-Beddingham Improvement

32

M1 J21 to J30 Widening (ECI) Contract 1

11915

M1 J21 to J30 Widening (ECI) Contract 2

1

M25 J1b to J3 Widening ECI

66

M25 J5 to J6/7 Widening DBFO

214

M25 J16 to J23 Widening DBFO

697

M25 J23 to J27 Widening DBFO

419

M25 J27 to J30 Widening DBFO

583

A21 Kippings Cross to Lamberhurst Bypass

68

A23 Handcross to Warhinglid

41

A453 Widening (M1 J24 to A52 Nottingham)

90

M25 J28/A12 Brook Street Interchange ECI

12

M27 J11 to J1 2 Climbing Lanes

27

M27 J3 To J4 Widening

52

M1 J30 to 31 Widening

135

M1 J32 to J34S P4L

139

M1 J34 to J37 P4L

246

M1 J37 to J39 P4L

224

M1 J39 to J42 Widening

202

M1 J31 to J32 Northbound C/D

29

M62 J25 to J27 P4L

215

M62 J27 to J28 ATM (Hard Shoulder running)

83

Totals

10126