Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much from Highways England's Growth and Housing Fund has been spent on projects in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside and (c) the North East.

Growth and Housing Fund (GHF) schemes are identified via competitive bidding rounds run in partnership with the Local Enterprise Partnerships and Combined Authorities, who put forward bids on behalf of their local authorities. These bids are then sifted against the published GHF criteria and, if successful at sift stage, subject to a full scheme appraisal and detailed business case.

At present, none of the Growth and Housing Fund has been awarded to any projects in the (a) Jarrow constituency or (b) South Tyneside Borough area. In the wider (c) North East region, £1.01m has been awarded to the A1 Darlington project.

One bid has been made into the Growth and Housing Fund (GHF) from the Jarrow constituency and the South Tyneside local authority area. In total, seven bids have so far been made into the fund from the North East region.

The bid received in the Jarrow constituency is the A19 Mill Lane scheme. The scheme was subsequently fully funded by the DfT’s National Productivity Infrastructure Fund (NPIF) and has been withdrawn from the GHF.