Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much central Government has spent on road infrastructure in (a) Huddersfield, (b) Kirklees and (c) Yorkshire in each of the last three years.
The Department for Transport is responsible for the strategic road network which is managed by the Highways Agency on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport. The remaining roads are the responsibility of local highway authorities under the Highways Act 1980.
Highways Agency spending on improving road infrastructure (including smaller schemes and technology improvements) on the strategic road network in the Yorkshire and Humber area in the last three financial years is as follows:
Financial Year
| Funding for Yorkshire and Humber Area (£m)
| |
2011/12
| £72.413
| |
2012/13
| £66.658
| |
2013/14
| £81.982
|
The Department for Transport also provides funding to local highway authorities through Integrated Transport and Highways Maintenance Block grants. This funding can be used to improve local roads that they manage if they so wish. The following table provides this information.
Highways Maintenance Block
Year
| Kirklees (£m)
| West Yorkshire (£m)
| Yorkshire & Humberside (£m)
|
March 2011 pothole
| 1.304
| 5.776*
| 20.900
|
2011/12 Block
| 0
| 27.173
| 87.562
|
2012/13 Block
| 0
| 26.185
| 84.412
|
2013/14 Block
| 0
| 25.511
| 80.158
|
2013/14 additional block
| 1.019
| 4.620*
| 13.581
|
2013/14 flood recovery
| 0.606
| 2.999*
| 10.356
|
2014/15 Block
| 0
| 23.766
| 75.488
|
2014/15 additional block
| 0.548
| 2.446*
| 7.268
|
* made up of the individual payments to Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield.
Integrated Transport Block
Year
| Kirklees (£m)
| West Yorkshire (£m)
| Yorkshire & Humberside (£m)
|
2011/12 Block
| 0
| 21.128*
|
47.760*
|
2012/13 Block
| 0
| 19.318
| 43.666
|
2012/13 Block
| 0
| 19.318
| 43.666
|
2013/14 Block
| 0
| 19.318
| 43.666
|
2014/15 Block
| 0
| 27.165
| 61.403
|
* includes top up announced in 2011 autumn statement.
In addition, the Department also provide capital funding for local major schemes, costing over £5 million. The figures for spend on local major road infrastructure in the last 3 years is as follows.
Areas
| 2011/12 (£m)
| 2012/13 £m)
| 2013/14 (£m)
| |
Huddersfield
| 0
| 0
| 0
| |
Kirklees
| 0
| 0
| 0
| |
Yorkshire
| 7.2
| 25.6
| 26.8
| |
Revenue funding for highway maintenance is provided through the Communities and Local Government Revenue Support Grant (RSG). RSG is an un-hypothecated grant provided to local authorities to enable them to carry out their functions, and local authorities can choose to spend this on any services for which they have responsibility, as per local spending priorities.