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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.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 12th May 2014

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.

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