Mets lose TSG
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NSPORT funds are being switched away from the metropolitan is under the Government's 1984/85 Transport Supplementary it allocation announced last week.
le Greater London Council metropolitan counties lose rly £75m over the current grant levels, and though non-metropolitan counties £23m more, the Chancellor of the Exchequer saves a net £50m with the overall grant payable reduced from £450m to £400m.
The grant is paid as a contribution to spending programmes of £1,898.5m planned by the English local authorities for 1984/85.
Both the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties have been given approval to spend more on road maintenance with approved budgets up eight per cent. Accepted programmes of capital investment are up 4.5 per cent, mostly benefiting road schemes in shire counties.
The Department of Transport said: "The majority of councils will have higher capital allocations in 1984/85 and will be in a position to start work on further new schemes in their programmes".
In contrast, the £59m taken from the GLC and £15m from the other metropolitan counties reflect a squeeze on accepted levels of support to buses and a political decision to change the grant formula to benefit the shires and the Treasury at the expense of the Labourcontrolled metropollitan areas.
There was no news of the announcement of the end of the TSG itself. This has been rumoured for some time but a DTp spokesman told CM that it was still under review.