Transport: Thames Gateway
(asked on 23rd June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on transport schemes in the Thames Gateway in each of the last 15 years for which figures are available.
The Government's local transport funding to the Thames Gateway is made to specific highway authorities, not specifically to the Gateway. The area comprises a number of local highway authorities. These include Kent, Medway, Southend, Thurrock and Essex. It is generally for those highway authorities to decide on what schemes this local investment is spent. Information below sets out allocations that have been made where information is readily available.
Local Roads
Funding for these authorities via the local block funding concerning maintenance and local transport investment for the period 2011/12 to 2014/15 can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-transport-capital-block-funding
And for the period 2000/01 to 2010/11:
In terms of local transport major schemes (over £5 million), the Department has funded two schemes since 2009. The Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road (£19.1 million) and Saddlers Farm Junction A130/A13 in Essex (£63.5 million).
Strategic Roads
The Department does not hold a record of the annual level of investment on strategic roads in the Thames Gateway area over the last 15 years. However, over that period major schemes on the A2, A249 and M25 have been delivered representing an investment of over £400million.
The following major (over £10million) strategic road improvement schemes have been delivered in the past 15 years in the Thames Gateway area.
Scheme | Outturn cost |
A2 Bean-Cobham Phase 1 Bean-Pepperhill (Apr 03 – Dec 04) | £23m |
A2 Bean-Cobham Phase 2 Pepperhill to Cobham (Sept 06 – Feb 09) | £133m |
A2/A282 Dartford Improvement (Sept 06 – Dec 07) | £122m |
A249 Iwade to Queensborough Improvement (Apr 04 – Jul 06) | £96m |
M25 J1b-3 Widening (Jun 07 – Jul 08) | £63m |
Total | £437m |
Rail
Very few rail schemes are fully contained within the Thames Gateway or a single local authority area, rather they are generally funded on the basis of railway operational geography. As such, no data is available for rail schemes.
Community Infrastructure Fund
In the first round of the Community Infrastructure Fund (2006-2008), the Department provided a total of £64 million for transport schemes to support housing growth in the Thames Gateway.