Spending of additional funding as result of HS2 cancellation
Case reference FOI2024/00656
Published 17 April 2024
Request
The media has reported that Herefordshire will receive £102 million additional transport funding as a result of the HS2 cancellation
Regional breakdown of extra allocations
Local authority LTF funding (2025 to 2032)
Blackburn with Darwen £117m
Blackpool £121
Cheshire East £181m
Cheshire West and Chester £168m
County Durham £73m
Cumberland £149m
East Riding of Yorkshire £168m
Herefordshire £102m
Kingston upon Hull, City of £161m
Transport jobs get £4.7bn of cancelled HS2 cash | Construction Enquirer News 26.2.24
Has this £102 million been received?
How will it be spent?
Please let me have a breakdown of total expenditure by category:
New road building
New cycle routes
County-wide 20mph speed limits on streets where people live and routes used by children to go to school
New bus routes and frequencies e.g. will the DRM 476 (Ledbury-Hereford be funded to go hourly and not every 2 hours?
Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
School travel plans to shift car trips taking pupils to school to bus/bike/foot
Response
The Government has announced they will be re-allocating money that was to be spent on the Manchester-Birmingham part of HS2. Details of this funding have not been made clear to local authorities beyond an indicative allocation. For Herefordshire this is £102m across 7 years.
We have not received formal guidance from the Department of Transport (DfT) on how to access the funding, the amounts available per year, what the spending profile will be, nor what the parameters are for what we can spend money on.
We expect to have to submit a spending plan, initially for the first 2 years, which will require DfT approval before the funding can be released. We do not know how much we will have access to in the first 2 years.
Further to this, within the next 2 years, there will be a comprehensive spending review across the whole of government; this may have an impact on this funding.
In response to your specific questions, we have not received any money nor any guidance on how to access the funding. This guidance will be required before we can prepare the spending plan to submit to DfT.
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