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Mary Creagh – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2014-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2014, Official Report, column 692W, on rural bus services, to which projects the £300 million funding for major bus projects has been allocated; and how much has been allocated to each.

Stephen Hammond

The table below sets out the schemes in the Department’s Local Authority Major Scheme Programme which are entirely bus based or which include elements related to bus improvements.

Scheme Name and Status

Local Authority

Total Cost

DfT Contribution

Complete

£m

£m

Mansfield Public Transport Interchange

Nottinghamshire

8.8

7.2

Rochdale Interchange

Rochdale

11.5

7.0

Weston Package Phase 1

N. Somerset

13.4

9.3

Fully Approved / Under Construction

Portsmouth Tipner Interchange

Portsmouth

28.2

19.5

Access York Phase 1

City of York

22.7

15.3

Loughborough Town Centre Imp

Leicestershire

19.7

14.8

Ipswich Transport Fit for 21st Century

Suffolk

21.6

18.3

Worcester Integrated Transport

Worcestershire

19.7

14.2

Bath Transportation Package

Bath & NE Somerset

26.9

11.0

Manchester Cross City Bus

Manchester

43.2

32.5

S Yorkshire Bus Rapid Transit North

S Yorkshire

28.2

15.8

Pennine Reach (Blackburn)

Blackburn w Darwen

39.8

31.9

Programme Entry / Support Confirmed

Bristol BRT Ashton Vale to Temple Meads

Bristol

46.7

34.5

South Bristol Link

N. Somerset

42.6

27.6

Bristol BRT North Fringe to Hengrove

S. Gloucestershire

92.9

51.1

Hucknall Town Centre Imp

Nottinghamshire

12.3

8.5

Elmbridge Transport

Gloucestershire

18.7

14.1