To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport with reference to the answer of 29 October 2009, Official Report, column 495W, on departmental public expenditure, how much funding is being transferred from his Department's budgets to the Department for Communities and Local Government; and from which of his Department's budgets that funding will be transferred. (308660)

The Department for Transport has transferred £350 million from its capital budget for 2009-10, to the Department for Communities and Local Government. Of this, £300 million was made available from the release of rail fiscal stimulus funding with the remaining £50 million coming from the Departmental Unallocated Provision.