Local Transport Fund allocations 2025 to 2032
Published 26 February 2024
Applies to England
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From 2025, the Local Transport Fund (LTF) will fund a wide range of projects to improve the local transport connections that people rely on every day, particularly across towns, villages, and rural areas.
Over the next 7 years from April 2025, local transport authorities (LTAs) in the North will receive £2.5 billion and those in the Midlands will receive £2.2 billion.
The Network North plan confirmed that “this will be money additional to the local transport, road and rail budgets allocated at the last Spending Review and additional to what those organisations were expecting for the next decade”. The funding is additional to the previously announced highways maintenance funding allocations and Bus service improvement plans: local transport authority allocations that will deliver the increased bus routes and services we have promised.
The funding covers the period 2025 to 2026 until 2031 to 2032 and will be used in line with the 3 priorities we have set out, which are to:
- drive better connectivity within our towns, suburbs and cities
- drive better connectivity between our towns and cities
- improve everyday local journeys for people
Table 1 sets out the current annual Integrated Transport Block (ITB) allocations and the additional LTF allocations for each LTA from 2025 to 2026 until 2031 to 2032.
Additional funding will be predominantly capital and will include a resource element to ensure LTAs can deliver their plans. Further details on this will be announced soon.
The Department for Transport will publish further guidance on the scope of LTF and the delivery requirements for LTAs.
LTF allocations
Table 1: annual ITB allocations and additional LTF allocations for each LTA
| Local authority | Current ITB allocation per year (£000) | Additional LTF funding over 7 years from 2025 to 2026 until 2031 to 2032 (£000) |
|---|---|---|
| Blackburn with Darwen | 1,435 | 116,911 |
| Blackpool | 1,733 | 120,824 |
| Cheshire East | 2,003 | 180,716 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | 1,970 | 168,399 |
| County Durham[footnote 1] | Funding allocated to North East Combined Authority | 72,844 |
| Cumberland[footnote 2] | 1,209 | 148,747 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 1,653 | 168,269 |
| Herefordshire | 1,077 | 101,851 |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of | 2,247 | 161,146 |
| Lancashire | 6,101 | 494,400 |
| Leicester | 2,576 | 159,559 |
| Leicestershire | 2,750 | 238,154 |
| Lincolnshire | 3,337 | 262,339 |
| North East Lincolnshire | 1,490 | 119,726 |
| North Lincolnshire | 1,168 | 118,189 |
| North Northamptonshire | 1,364 | 149,208 |
| Rutland | 462 | 49,341 |
| Shropshire | 1,638 | 136,443 |
| Staffordshire | 3,449 | 285,903 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 1,679 | 133,994 |
| Telford and Wrekin | 946 | 107,018 |
| Warrington | 1,505 | 121,251 |
| Warwickshire | 2,657 | 203,717 |
| Westmorland and Furness[footnote 2] | 1,357 | 128,909 |
| West Northamptonshire | 1,737 | 162,831 |
| Worcestershire | 2,423 | 209,642 |
| York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority [footnote 3] | 4,628 | 379,670 |
| Total[footnote 1] | 54,594 | 4,700,000 |
The East Midlands Mayoral Combined County Authority will receive a City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) from CRSTS2. Therefore, Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have not been included in LTF funding allocations, which are intended for areas outside the scope of CRSTS settlements. Final CRSTS2 allocations (within a defined range of the indicative allocation), funding profiles and the split of capital and revenue funding will be confirmed in due course following engagement with city regions on their delivery plans.
Funding is allocated to the current LTA for each area. Where further combined authorities are established, funding will instead be paid to the new combined authority.
Numbers may not sum to totals due to rounding.
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Durham will receive the equivalent of £72.844 million from the £4.7 billion announced for LTF, over the period 2025 to 2026 until 2026 to 2027. This is to ensure County Durham will receive a long-term funding settlement from 2025. This funding will be paid to the North East Mayoral Combined Authority (NEMCA) to support transport projects in Durham. From 2027 to 28 onwards, Durham will receive transformational transport funding as part of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority’s CRSTS allocation. ↩ ↩2
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Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness authorities came into existence on 1 April 2023, replacing Cumbria County Council. As such their current allocations have been estimated based on their populations, as funding was previously allocated to Cumbria County Council. ↩ ↩2
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York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority was established in December 2023. Future funding will be allocated to the combined authority. Their current allocation is based on the combined ITB funding for City of York and North Yorkshire unitary authorities. ↩