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Written Question
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Monday 28th April 2014

Asked by: Bob Ainsworth (Labour - Coventry North East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the level of funding per head of the population for transport in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.

Answered by Stephen Hammond

The most recent data available for regional expenditure is the Country and regional analysis for 2013, published by HM Treasury.

Table A.15 shows UK identifiable expenditure on services by function, country and region, per head, 2008-09 to 2012-13, of which: Transport

The extract below gives identifiable expenditure per head for the West Midlands and England. Committed spend is not analysed at a lower level.

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

West Midlands

283

258

218

206

202

England

317

348

317

288

267

The Department for Transport is not the only public body responsible for transport and a large proportion of expenditure is covered by local government bodies.

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