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Transport

British Railway Board: Finance

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the annual budget of BRB (Residuary) Ltd. was for each year since 1997; and what functions it discharges. [180259]

Mr. Tom Harris: BRB (Residuary) Ltd. (BRBR) was formally created in February 2001 when the assets and liabilities of the British Railways Board (BRB) were transferred to the Strategic Rail Authority. Prior to 2001, the functions of BRBR were discharged by BRB and details of the budget and financial results during this period can be found in BRB’s historic accounts. Between 2001 and 2005 BRBR was a subsidiary of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) and details of its income and expenditure budget are published in the SRA’s annual report and accounts, copies of which are in the Library of the House.

In October 2005, ownership of BRBR formally transferred from the SRA to the Secretary of State pursuant to a Transfer Scheme under the 2005 Railways Act. The latest results for the company which include its budget are available on BRBR’s website at:

www.brbr.gov.uk

The function of the company is to manage and discharge the residual rights and liabilities of BRB. Full details are available on BRBR’s website.

Cycling England: Expenditure

Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much has been spent on Cycling England in the period during which this programme
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object had a comparability factor of zero per cent. for the purposes of the application of the Barnett Formula. [186866]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Expenditure previously recorded under The Cycling England programme is now carried within the local transport group of programmes. Annex C of the October 2007 edition of ‘Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy (SFP)’ shows this area of spending to be comparable in Wales. The SFP gives details of all comparability factors. For the period covered by the 2004 spending review, the comparability factors are published in the 2004 version of the Statement of Funding Policy and there was no separate Cycling England programme.

Heathrow Airport: Public Participation

Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many consultation documents on the expansion of Heathrow airport have been sent by post to (a) businesses and (b) residents in wards in each London borough. [187002]

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Jim Fitzpatrick: I refer the hon. Member to my answer on 17 January 2008, Official Report, columns 1412-13W, to the question from the hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening). This described the approach we have adopted for distributing the ‘Adding Capacity at Heathrow Airport’ consultation documents. In view of the number of ways in which consultation documents have been made available, it is not possible to determine precisely the split between documents sent to businesses and residents and the number sent to wards in each London borough.

Local Government Finance: Cheshire

Helen Southworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what funding has been allocated by her Department, its associated agencies and non-departmental bodies to (a) Warrington and (b) Cheshire in each year since 1997; and what the purpose of the funding was in each case. [185589]

Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 7 February 2008]: The following tables set out the funding allocated by the Department for Transport to Cheshire county council and Warrington borough council from 1997-98 to 2007-08 by purpose.

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Cheshire
£000
	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Capital Highway Maintenance	5,184	3,912	5,630	8,956	11,535	13,204	10,786	12,572	9,893	8,781	14,636
Capital Integrated Transport	3,725	935	2,316	2,800	7,300	7,479	9,224	10,164	8,507	8,111	8,301
Major Schemes	6,833	7,100	3,200	—	100	—	—	—	—	—	—
Links to School	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	180	—	—	117.5
School Travel Plan co-ordinator	—	—	—	—	30	30	30	—	—	—	—
Workplace travel plan coordinator	—	—	—	—	30	30	30	—	—	—	—
Rural bus subsidy grant	—	612	612	612	782	895	914	947	985	1,009	1,033
Rural bus challenge	—	16	632	—	945	620	552	—	—	—	—
Urban bus challenge	—	—	—	—	—	—	399	—	—	—	—
Kickstart (Bus Services)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	998	—	—
Mixed Priority Route Road Safety Demonstration Project	—	—	—	—	—	—	1,000	1,000	—	—	—
Specific Road Safety Grant	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1,762
Cheshire Safety Camera Partnership	—	—	—	—	—	—	1,821	2,116	1,896	(1)—	—
Digital breath testing screening equipment	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	33
Detrunked Roads (Resource)	—	—	—	—	—	1,652	1,831	1,877	2,013	2,158	2,212
Detrunked Roads (Capital)	—	—	—	—	—	2,099	131	3,500	3,750	3,245	3,695
Total funding	15,742	12,575	12,390	12,368	20,722	26,009	26,719	32,356	28,042	23,304	31,789.5

Warrington
£000
	1997-98( 2)	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Capital Highway Maintenance	—	1,312	1,474	1,755	2,357	2,474	2,837	2,991	2,729	2,649	3,493
Capital Integrated Transport	—	222	704	900	2,000	2,168	2,177	2,952	2,000	1,920	2,064
Major Schemes	—	1,534	—	—	345	993	1,683	1,973	1,162	—	—
Cycle Projects Fund	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
Local Authority Cycle Training Grants	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	35
Rural bus subsidy grant	—	60	60	60	76	87	89	108	112	115	118
Rural bus challenge	—	5	60	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Specific Road Safety Grant	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	392
Detrunked Roads (Resource)	—	—	—	—	—	14	14	14	15	15	16
Detrunked Roads (Capital)	—	—	—	—	—	827	—	—	—	—	—
Total funding	—	3,133	2,298	2,715	4,778	6,563	6,801	8,038	6,018	4,699	6,118
(1) To be published shortly (2) Cheshire county council was the local highway authority for Warrington (and Halton) up to and including 1997-98

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