Roads: Kent
(asked on 8th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been invested in road infrastructure in (a) Kent, (b) Medway and (c) Gillingham and Rainham constituency in each year since 2010.
The Gillingham and Rainham constituency falls within Medway Council’s area of responsibility and therefore we do not allocate any funds separately for road infrastructure in that area.
On the Strategic Road Network the investment in (a) Kent and (b) Medway for the financial years from 2010-11 to 2014-15 is provided in the table below.
Highways Agency Funding
2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 (Year to Date) | |
£m | £m | £m | £m | £m | |
Kent | 8.4 | 8.9 | 46.8 | 111.4 | 58.8 |
Medway | 1.8 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.4 |
For the local road network the Department for Transport has allocated the following funding to (a) Kent and (b) Medway for road infrastructure:
Local Highways Funding
2010/11* | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | |
| £m | £m | £m | £m | £m |
Kent | 93.9 | 73.1 | 32.7 | 36.3 | 54.8 |
Medway | 5.3 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 5.3 |
The above table includes funding we have provided through the local Highways Maintenance Block, Integrated Transport Block, Severe Weather Funding, Local Major Projects and Local Pinch Point Fund schemes. The table does not include funding provided through the Bus Service Operators Grant, Local Sustainable Transport Fund, or Cycling Grant.
Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for maintaining their local highways. It is for local highway authorities to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services that they provide.