Luke Hall: DfT: Written Answers (13)

Written Question

Transport: Infrastructure

Thursday 26th May 2016

Asked by: 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 2015-16.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

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:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440269/dft-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015-_web-version_.pdf

Written Question

Transport: Infrastructure

Thursday 26th May 2016

Asked by: 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 2010-11.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

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:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440269/dft-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015-_web-version_.pdf

Written Question

Roads: Gloucestershire

Thursday 28th April 2016

Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department is making available to the South Gloucestershire Unitary Authority for completion of new road projects.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The Department’s funding for major road projects sits within the Local Growth Fund. The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership, which includes South Gloucestershire, has already been allocated £230.7m from the Local Growth Fund from 2015/16 to 2020/21 to take forward their growth priorities, including transport projects. Up to a further £1.8bn from the Local Growth Fund will be awarded competitively to LEPs later this year, with an additional £475m available for exceptionally large transport projects.