£25.1m. Spent out of Road Fund
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PAYMENTS from the Road Fund in 1950-51 were £25.1m., compared with nearly £26m. in 1949-50. Of this total, the amount paid out in respect of trunk roads was £8,581,000, £634,000 less than in the previous 12 months. Maintenance and minor improvements cost £6,286,000, compared with £6,868,000, and improvements and new construction £1,992,000, compared with .L1,963,000.
Grants to highway authorities totalled 115,825,000, compared with £15,923,000 in 1949-50. Of the total, £12,850,000 was paid out in respect of maintenance and minor improvement work, and £2,400,000 for major improvement, new construction, etc. The respective figures for 1949-50 were £13.143,000 and £2,154.000.
These figures are given in the Report on the Administration of the Road Fund for 1950-51, published by H.M. Stationery Office,' price 2s. 6d.
Expenditure on road work throughout the country continued in 1950-51 to be subject to restraints imposed by Government control of capital investment. states the Report. As far as possible, highway expenditure was concentrated on the upkeep of existing roads; new construction and improvements were again limited to works necessary to maintain essential communications or to improve conditions at bad danger spots or to enable other development covered by the national economic programme to proceed.