The Highways Agency allocated £105 million of funding to local network management schemes in 2009-10. Approximately 1,500 projects make up this total and it is not practicable to detail these.
The Highways Agency operates the Strategic Road network on a National basis and prioritises its programme as such. The local network management scheme budget in the 2009-10 Business Plan was allocated by area as follows:
£ million East 13 East Midlands 9 North West 18 South East 27 South West 8 West Midlands 14 Yorkshire and North East 16
The Department for Transport is to spend £400 million of the £700 million fiscal stimulus funding on projects on the strategic road network. The year-to-date and estimated full year forecast of fiscal stimulus expenditure, split by region, is as follows:
Region Year to date (December 2009) Full year forecast North West 36 58 Yorkshire and North East 61 87 West Midlands 33 61 East Midlands 51 78 East 32 55 South West 24 30 South East 29 31 Total 266 400
There are in excess of 100 schemes being delivered as part of the fiscal stimulus programme and it is not practicable for all schemes to be detailed. In the following table are examples of these schemes with estimated full year forecast expenditure (these are included in the £400 million shown in the above).
Description Full year forecast (£ million) A46 Newark to Widmerpool dualling 70 M6 J5-15 hard shoulder strengthening 51 M62 J25-30 concrete barrier and lighting renewal 36 M1 J32-35a concrete barrier and lighting renewal 20 M1 J10-13 hard shoulder strengthening 16 M11 J9-8 pavement renewals 11 Avonmouth Bridge Northbound resurfacing 6 A27 Lighting and major maintenance 6 A3 Esher bypass major maintenance 5 M4 J15 replacement of central reserve barrier 5 M18 Jctn 6-7 concrete barrier renewal 4 A5 Milton Keynes renewals 4 M1 J28-30 lane 1 and hard shoulder renewals 4 M6 J33-34 resurfacing/safety barrier replacement 4 A38—A50 installation variable message signs 3 M42 J5 through junction running 3 M5 Poundisford resurfacing 3 A55 River Dee carriageway resurfacing 2
(2) how much of his Department’s Regional Funding Advice 2 budget has been allocated to (a) Highways Agency schemes of regional significance valued at over £5 million and (b) each local transport major scheme in each region in each of the next three years.
The Government published guidance for the regions and additional transport supplementary guidance in July 2008. This provided information on regional funding allocations by year from 2008-09 to 2018-19 and by region. I am placing a copy of this guidance in the Libraries of the House.
In addition, I have also recently placed in the House Libraries advice received from each region, excluding London, in July 2009 which highlights suggested funding allocations to 2018-19 for each (a) Highways Agency scheme of regional significance and (b) local transport major scheme, costing over £5 million. These allocations are indicative only. The actual amount spent on each scheme in any given year will depend upon the terms of the final funding approval from the Department, the start date, and progress of construction. Copies of our response to the advice dated July 2009 have also been placed in the House Libraries.