[holding answer 9 March 2009]: The Royal Parks advise that expenditure on roads and parking areas is not disaggregated for each park. The combined expenditure figures on roads and parking areas over the past five years are as follows:
(a) Budgets
(i) and (ii) The provisional annual allocation for road and parking area maintenance was £500,000 per year for each year since 2004-05. This budget is not park specific. Expenditure is prioritised annually and the allocation adjusted accordingly.
(b) Expenditure
£ 2004-05 Richmond Park 369,000 Regent's Park 71,000 St. James's Park 30,000 Hyde Park 76,000 Total 546,000 2005-06 Richmond Park 11,000 Regent's Park 642,000 Greenwich Park 25,000 Hyde Park 6,000 Bushy Park 473,000 Total 1,157,000 2006-07 Regent's Park 290,000 St James's 58,000 Hyde Park 516,000 Total 864,000 2007-08 Richmond Park 125,000 Regents Park 5,000 St James's Park 24,000 Hyde Park 1627,000 Total 781,000 2008-09 Richmond 46,000 Regent's Park 65,000 St. James's Park 440,000 Hyde Park 135,000 Bushy Park 2789,000 Total 1,475,000 Total for period 4.823 million 1 Includes TfL funding. 2 Includes Heritage Lottery funding. Notes: 1. All figures relate to major works and exclude expenditure on annual ‘reactive maintenance’ costs on roads and parking areas which is accounted separately as part of wider upkeep costs. 2. The figures also do not include expenditure on tracks, footpaths and rides that are available for the use of pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders.