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Written Question
Transport: Expenditure
Monday 16th June 2014

Asked by: Rob Wilson (Conservative - Reading East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to ensure central government funding for local authority transport projects is properly spent by those authorities.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The Department has set out how it assures itself that the money gives to local transport authorities is spent properly in its Accounting Officer System Statement. This can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/50070/dft-accountability-system-statement.pdf