Transport written question – answered at on 5 September 2014.
Gavin Williamson
Conservative, South Staffordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding his Department has allocated to each local authority in the West Midlands for road improvement in each of the last five years.
Robert Goodwill
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department for Transport provides funding to local highway authorities through a number of programmes which can be used to improve local roads.
The following table provides the funding allocated to the West Midlands authorities since 2010-11. This funding includes Integrated Transport Block, Maintenance Block, Additional Block funding, the Pothole Fund, Severe Weather funding, Local Major Projects and the Local Pinch Point Fund.
| £ million | |||||
| Authority | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
| Herefordshire | 13.610 | 12.929 | 9.985 | 11.376 | 16.756 |
| Shropshire | 19.665 | 18.988 | 14.792 | 16.700 | 19.612 |
| Staffordshire | 24.457 | 26.448 | 21.113 | 27.180 | 31.187 |
| Stoke on Trent | 4.653 | 4.423 | 3.681 | 3.973 | 5.163 |
| Telford and Wrekin | 4.296 | 4.520 | 3.682 | 5.202 | 4.836 |
| Warwickshire | 16.243 | 16.173 | 13.504 | 17.593 | 22.359 |
| Worcestershire | 17.423 | 19.106 | 18.152 | 21.849 | 24.221 |
| CENTRO—West Midlands ITA | 66.783 | 48.727 | 45.791 | 42.295 | 53.626 |
| Birmingham1 | 5.125 | 2.683 | 0 | 7.500 | 5.700 |
| Coventry2 | 0.298 | 0.488 | 0 | 2.411 | 4.870 |
| Dudley2 | 0.812 | 1.125 | 0.100 | 0.473 | 1.438 |
| Sandwell2 | 7.750 | 8.718 | 3.800 | 3.420 | 1.461 |
| Solihull2 | 0.223 | 0.453 | 0 | 0.495 | 3.696 |
| Walsall2 | 0.208 | 0.522 | 0 | 0.352 | 0.888 |
| Wolverhampton2 | 0.648 | 0.446 | 0 | 1.688 | 3.078 |
| 1 Birmingham have not received block or additional funding for highways maintenance since April 2011 as their PFI project became operational in June 2010. 2 The capital block funding for all the Councils that form the Integrated Transport Authority (ITA) is allocated to the ITA, however additional funding for highways maintenance, the Pothole Fund, severe weather funding, Local Major Projects and the Local Pinch Point Fund is paid directly to each Council. | |||||
In addition the Department is providing £625 million to Birmingham city council for their Highways Maintenance PFI project which became operational in 2010 for a 25 year period. Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding which is provided by the Department for Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for highway improvements.
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