Bob Ainsworth – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bob Ainsworth on 2014-04-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the level of funding per head of the population for transport in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.

Stephen Hammond

The most recent data available for regional expenditure is the Country and regional analysis for 2013, published by HM Treasury.

Table A.15 shows UK identifiable expenditure on services by function, country and region, per head, 2008-09 to 2012-13, of which: Transport

The extract below gives identifiable expenditure per head for the West Midlands and England. Committed spend is not analysed at a lower level.

The Department for Transport is not the only public body responsible for transport and a large proportion of expenditure is covered by local government bodies.