Transport: East Midlands
The question
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.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
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.
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