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<p>The Highways Agency is responsible for the motorway and strategic trunk road network.
There have been no Major Road Schemes in the Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency
during the last four years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the investment
in the two Major Road Schemes that are in the North Yorkshire area. Please note the
14/15 expenditure includes actual spend to the end of June 2014 and a forecast up
to and including the end of March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td>Scheme</td><td>11/12</td><td>12/13</td><td>13/14</td><td>14/15</td><td>Estimated
total</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>Actual £m</td><td>Actual £m</td><td>Actual £m</td><td>Forecast
£m</td><td>out-turn cost £m</td></tr><tr><td>A1 Dishforth to Leeming</td><td>80.4</td><td>6.0</td><td>-5.9*</td><td>1.9</td><td>311</td></tr><tr><td>A1
Dishforth to Barton</td><td>0.1</td><td>3.1</td><td>35.7</td><td>90.8</td><td>380</td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>*The -5.9 reported in 13/14, is made up of a change in accounting policy and
a reduction in the provision for post construction activity.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>The Highways Agency does not separately identify the investment on its roads
by constituency area. The Highways Agency has invested approximately £33 million on
safety and improvement schemes, renewal of carriageway surfaces and repairs to structures
in the North Yorkshire region within the last four years. The breakdown of investment
by financial year is shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td>Year</td><td>Investment
£m</td></tr><tr><td>2010/11</td><td>5.211</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>4.261</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>10.791</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>12.438</td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>For the local road network the Department for Transport provides capital funding
to local highway authorities for maintenance. The Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency
falls within North Yorkshire County Council’s area of responsibility and therefore
we do not allocate any funds directly to that area for local road infrastructure.
Over the four year period from 2011 North Yorkshire County Council’s allocation is:</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>Allocation £m</p><p>
</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>25.252</p><p>
</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>24.065</p><p>
</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14<sup>1</sup></p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>29.002</p><p>
</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15<sup>2</sup></p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>27.855</p><p>
</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>1 Includes the top up announced
in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2012 and the Wet Weather funding paid in March
2014.</p><p>2 Includes the top up announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement 2012
and the Pothole Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport is
funding one local major scheme in North Yorkshire, the Bedale Aiskew Leeming Bar Bypass
which has £10.760m of funding in 2014/15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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