Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much government financial support has been budgeted for cycling initiatives in each of the next five years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department has recently consulted on future funding for cycling via the draft Cycling Delivery Plan. The consultation closed on 27 November 2014 and I will be in a position to provide a fuller answer to this once this consultation process has been completed and the final Cycling Delivery Plan has been published.
However, the work to meet our funding ambition set out in the draft plan has already begun; in November the Deputy Prime Minister and I announced a package of measures totalling £214 million, including a £114 million extension to our cycle cities programme, and £100 million investment to improve the conditions for cyclists and walkers travelling alongside and crossing Britain’s most important and busiest roads from 2015/16.
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Government has spent on sustainable transport in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last three years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department has committed £51.952m to the Yorkshire and the Humber area as part of a range of Local Sustainable Transport Fund projects, which will be ongoing until March 2015. To date, £47.812m of this funding has been paid out. This includes £1.653m for Harrogate and Knaresborough, of which £0.968m has been paid out. A further £19.684m in funding has also been provided to Yorkshire and the Humber through the Linking Communities, Cycle Safety and Cycling Ambition grant programmes. This means that over the past three financial years, the Department has paid £67.496m to the Yorkshire and Humber area (including Harrogate and Knaresborough), and has committed £71.636m up until March 2015.
The breakdown of these overall figures are as follows in the attached table, and include any funding claimed thus far in Quarters 1 and 2 of this financial year, where this breakdown is known.
In addition, the Integrated Transport Block can be used for small transport improvement projects, including cycle routes. The allocations for the past three financial years are below. The current financial year is also provided for information.
| 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
| North Yorkshire | £4.474m | £4.091m | £4.091m | £5.753m |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | £47.760m | £43.666m | £43.666m | £61.403m |
The background notes provide a summary for the funding programmes mentioned above. More detailed information on the individual schemes can be found on www.GOV.UK
Asked by: Andrew Jones (Conservative - Harrogate and Knaresborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been invested in road infrastructure in (a) Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency and (b) North Yorkshire in each of the last four years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Highways Agency is responsible for the motorway and strategic trunk road network. There have been no Major Road Schemes in the Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency during the last four years.
The table below shows the investment in the two Major Road Schemes that are in the North Yorkshire area. Please note the 14/15 expenditure includes actual spend to the end of June 2014 and a forecast up to and including the end of March 2015.
| Scheme | 11/12 | 12/13 | 13/14 | 14/15 | Estimated total |
| Actual £m | Actual £m | Actual £m | Forecast £m | out-turn cost £m | |
| A1 Dishforth to Leeming | 80.4 | 6.0 | -5.9* | 1.9 | 311 |
| A1 Dishforth to Barton | 0.1 | 3.1 | 35.7 | 90.8 | 380 |
*The -5.9 reported in 13/14, is made up of a change in accounting policy and a reduction in the provision for post construction activity.
The Highways Agency does not separately identify the investment on its roads by constituency area. The Highways Agency has invested approximately £33 million on safety and improvement schemes, renewal of carriageway surfaces and repairs to structures in the North Yorkshire region within the last four years. The breakdown of investment by financial year is shown in the following table:
| Year | Investment £m |
| 2010/11 | 5.211 |
| 2011/12 | 4.261 |
| 2012/13 | 10.791 |
| 2013/14 | 12.438 |
For the local road network the Department for Transport provides capital funding to local highway authorities for maintenance. The Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency falls within North Yorkshire County Council’s area of responsibility and therefore we do not allocate any funds directly to that area for local road infrastructure. Over the four year period from 2011 North Yorkshire County Council’s allocation is:
Year
| Allocation £m
|
2011/12
| 25.252
|
2012/13
| 24.065
|
2013/141
| 29.002
|
2014/152
| 27.855
|
1 Includes the top up announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2012 and the Wet Weather funding paid in March 2014.
2 Includes the top up announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2012 and the Pothole Fund.
The Department for Transport is funding one local major scheme in North Yorkshire, the Bedale Aiskew Leeming Bar Bypass which has £10.760m of funding in 2014/15.