Q. Transport: Infrastructure

(asked on 18th May 2016) - View Source

Luke Hall
(Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent by the Government on transport infrastructure projects nationally in 2014-15.

Robert Goodwill

This question was answered on 26th May 2016

The total capital expenditure of the Department for Transport in the years 2010/11 to 2015/16 is shown in the table below.

£millions	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15¹	2015/16²
Capital DEL	7,299	7,686	7,828	8,460	5,501	6,119
Capital AME	-	-	-	-	6,695	7,754
Total Capital Expenditure	7,299	7,653	7,767	8,472	12,196	13,872
Notes DEL = Departmental Expenditure Limit AME = Annually Managed Expenditure 1. Network Rail was reclassified into the public sector during the 2014/15 financial year and its Capital spending is reported in full in AME from that year onwards. For earlier years, the department's Capital grant to Network Rail (which funded some but not all of its spending) was reported in DEL. The approximate effect of this change was to increase reported spending by between £2.5bn and £3.0bn per year from 2014/15 onwards, relative to the previous arrangements. 2. Figures for 2015/16 are published budgets for the year. Outturn figures will be available when the 2015/16 annual report and accounts is published later in the year.

These figures do not include spending by Transport for London and other local government bodies, or by the devolved administrations.

This information is taken from the Core Tables of the department’s 2014/15 annual report and accounts, which are published here: