Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much and what proportion of his Department's capital grants to local authorities have been spent on internal (a) administration and (b) other management costs in each financial year since 2015-16.

Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

In line with the guidance issued by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, capital grants to local authorities are non-ringfenced, and not subject to any restrictions on how local authorities spend the grant money. However, to ensure capital grants are spent on delivering the schemes for which they are intended, my department requires a declaration to be made by the recipient local authorities that the conditions of each grant have been complied with.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many funds are allocated to local authorities by his Department through a process of competitive bidding; and if he will publish the names of those funds.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Department for Transport publishes data on government grants spending annually including, grants provided to Local Authorities. The most recent grants data relating to the financial year 2019/20 can be found at DfT 19/20 Grant data . Details of grant schemes and individual awards are published online.

In 2019/20 Local Authorities received funding from ten grant schemes via a competitive bidding process. These are set out below:

• Safer Roads

• Access Fund

• Local Growth Fund

• Large Local Majors

• Local Resilience Forums

• City Scheme

• Low Emission Taxi

• Low Emission Bus

• Opening LA transport data

• Transforming Cities Fund

The Department is currently reviewing its grant data for 2020/21 and will be published by the Cabinet Office in March 22.