Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the (a) total cost to the public purse for, (b) proportion of her Department’s total expenditure that was spent on and (c) spend per head on transport infrastructure in (i) Lincolnshire and (ii) the East Midlands in the last ten years.

HM Treasury’s Country and Regional Analysis: 2024 shows the following spend of public money on transport in the East Midlands region, for the five most recent years available. Historic data is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-analysis.

(a) Total cost to the public purse:

The total identifiable expenditure on transport in the East Midlands for the five most recent years available (2019-20 to 2023-24) is as follows:

2019-20: £1,449 million

2020-21: £2,229 million

2021-22: £1,799 million

2022-23: £1,724 million

2023-24: £1,838 million

(b) Proportion of the Department’s total expenditure:

The proportion of the Department for Transport’s total expenditure on transport in the East Midlands for the same period is as follows:

2019-20: 5.3%

2020-21: 5.4%

2021-22: 4.9%

2022-23: 4.6%

2023-24: 4.6%

(c) Spend per head:

The expenditure per head on transport in the East Midlands for the same period is as follows:

2019-20: £299

2020-21: £459

2021-22: £368

2022-23: £349

2023-24: £368

While the above statistics are only available at the regional level, examples of recent Government investment in the Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority (GLCCA) area include over £180 million from the Local Transport Grant, £73.5 million in local roads maintenance funding and £18.5 million in local authority bus funding.