Transport written question – answered at on 23 November 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the potential combined effect of reductions in the level of the road safety grant and of the ending of funding from his Department for speed cameras on the level of road traffic (a) accidents and (b) deaths.
No such assessment has been made.
The Government continue to provide substantial funding for local authorities. The Government are clear that local government needs increased flexibility to take decisions locally to deliver the solutions that suit them best. Through lifting restrictions on how local government spends its money by removing ring-fences, local authorities are now free to determine their priorities and to make decisions about where savings are found. I would expect that road safety will remain a priority for them. Fixed camera operation remains an option for local authorities who remain free to invest in new cameras using their own resources.
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