Casualty figures will decide who gets share of £110M pot

11 January 2007
 
The bulk of the new £110M road safety grant is to be allocated on the basis of how many casualties were in each local authority area from 1994-1998.
Some £71.5M – three-quarters of the £97M available for councils – is to be allocated to authorities ‘for their road safety needs’, using the existing road safety formula for distributing integrated transport block cash, which simply looks at the 1994-98 casualty numbers. The remaining £25.5M is directed to those councils based on the quality of their new road safety plans and past record, as judged by their annual delivery plans.
The £110M fund replaces the netting-off scheme, being scrapped in April, following criticism that it is a revenue-generating exercise (Surveyor, 12 January 2006).
Much of the new money – four-fifths of which is revenue – will go towards supporting cameras currently being operated by safety camera partnerships. But the idea is that councils are given the opportunity to fund other, non-camera-based, solutions too. The total value of the fund means there is only an average of £1.2M for each council or conurbation, however. The conurbation allocated the most was the West Midlands, with £4.5M, followed by Greater Manchester, with £3.5M.
Essex (£3.4M), Lancashire (£3.2M), and Kent (£3.1M) were the counties which did best, while Nottingham (£900,000) led the city and unitary councils.
The grant is non ring-fenced, but Department for Transport officials stressed that ‘there remains a high expectation’ that allocations would be invested in road safety.

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