CSS president asks for spending figures

10 June 2009

The County Surveyors’ Society (CSS) has called on the Government to give ‘indicative figures’ regarding predicted cuts in local transport spending.

Brian Smith, president of the CSS, warned of ‘significant cuts’ in the local transport budget beyond 2011. With the Department for Transport (DfT) committing money to Network Rail, rail operators and the Highways Agency, ‘you don’t have to be a genius to realise local transport plan spending will be sacrificed,’ he told Surveyor.

Smith said that local authorities would find it ‘helpful’ to know the indicative figures.

Local authorities usually receive about 10% of the DfT’s total budget – or £2bn – but there will ‘inevitably be less money in the system’, Smith added.

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