Local transport plans - Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain - page 333

Table 20.2 Changes arising from use of the formula approach to integrated block funding (source: From full tables published in LTT 459)

Plan Indicative baseline allocation £m Actual allocation** Classification of docume nts

LTP1
2001/02-2005/06
Avg £m pa

LTP2 final year 2010/2011
£m

2007/08
£m

LTP2 LTP1 Delivery Report

Guideline Change

Conurbation
Tyne & Wear 15.5 23.0 +48% 17.0 Good V good

Merseyside 32.2 27.4 -15% 36.5 Excellent Excellent

Shire
East Sussex* 3.3 5.8 +75% 4.1 Good Good

Oxfordshire 10.2 8.1 -21% 9.2 Good Good

Urban unitary
Milton Keynes*

1.5 2.9 +93% 2.0 Fair Good

Reading 5.5 2.6 -53% 5.2 Excellent Excellent

The table shows for each of the three main categories of authority the ones whose guideline funding changed most as a result of introducing the allocation formula.

*Note: Kent and Thurrock received higher proportionate increases but these were influenced by exceptional payments on account of both growth area status and the DfT's
decision to continue tolling on the Dartford River Crossing

** Includes the effect of phased introduction of the formula plus 'uplift' payments resulting from the classification of LTP documents - see text