Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2016 to Question 39519, how much was provided to which projects under funding for (a) Highways England capital expenditure, (b) major transport schemes in local authorities and (c) other rail enhancements.
Details of the projects that will receive funding from the £4.8bn Highways England capital expenditure is available through the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-investment-strategy-plans-summary-of-assumptions
A breakdown of the funding for major transport schemes in local authorities is provided below:
Major Transport Schemes in Local Authorities | £m |
A164 Humber Bridge to Beverley Improvements | 10 |
A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road | 230 |
Access York Phase 1 (Park & Ride) | 23 |
Bedale/Aiskew/Leeming Bar Bypass (North Yorkshire) | 34 |
Beverley Southern Relief Road | 22 |
Crewe Green Link Road | 26 |
Heysham to M6 Link Road (Lancashire) | 124 |
Leeds Inner Relief Road Maintenance | 25 |
Leeds Public Transport (formerly allocated to Leeds New Generation Transport) | 250 |
Leeds Rail Growth (Kirkstall Forge and Apperley Bridge stations) | 16 |
Leeds Station Southern Entrance | 20 |
Manchester Cross City Bus | 43 |
Manchester Metrolink Extensions - Second City Crossing | 165 |
Mersey Gateway Bridge | 211 |
Morpeth Northern Bypass | 30 |
Pennine Reach (Blackburn) | 40 |
Rochdale Interchange | 12 |
South Yorkshire Bus Rapid Transit North | 36 |
Sunderland Strategic Corridor (New Wear Crossing) | 118 |
Thornton to Switch Island (Sefton) | 18 |
Todwick Crossroads Improvement (Rotherham) | 14 |
White Rose Way Improvement Scheme (Doncaster) | 17 |
TOTAL | 1,484 |
The funding shown is the lifetime public sector capital cost of each scheme funded or planned to be funded during the period 2015/16 to 2020/21
Other rail enhancements include over £1bn we are investing to upgrade rail infrastructure in the North of England. This includes a substantial electrification programme and other track, station and signalling improvements - to increase capacity and the number of services and making journeys faster and more reliable.