AQW 43698/11-15 Written question to the Minister for Regional Development
To ask the Minister for Regional Development for a breakdown, by organisation, of the funding for community transport in each of the last three years; and for his assessment of how this funding has been distributed.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 13 March 2015
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 13 March 2015
- Answer due by
- 31 March 2015
- Answered
- 26 March 201513 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My Department funds a grouping of eight Rural Community Transport Partnerships (RCTP). The funding for the last 3 years 2012-15 is broken down by each Partnership and is detailed in the table in Annex A.
Funding is allocated taking account of the requirements set out in each of their business plans and the financial position and costs of each RCTP.
Please note that the funding analysis statistics are not yet available for 2014/15.
| 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | TOTAL funding for last 3 years | |||||||
| Rural Community Transport Partnership (RCTP) | Funding | % staff costs to total costs | Trips | Avg Mileage per trip | Funding | % staff costs to total costs | Trips | Avg Mileage per trip | Funding | |
| CDM | £623,266 | 49.9% | 48134 | 10.14 | £564,285 | 47.6% | 56,335 | 12.4 | £591,526 | £1,779,077 |
| Down District CT | £443,314 | 49.1% | 9915 | 29.34 | £439,843 | 53.1% | 13,084 | 24.4 | £428,303 | £1,311,460 |
| Easilink (Strabane & Omagh) | £483,207 | 48.4% | 36620 | 9.93 | £534,627 | 49.6% | 38,587 | 9.5 | £521,679 | £1,539,513 |
| Fermanagh CT | £453,977 | 42.7% | 31576 | 14.23 | £517,469 | 46.8% | 33,344 | 13.8 | £575,248 | £1,546,694 |
| Lagan Valley (Lisburn) | £153,963 | 48.7% | 5787 | 13.46 | £209,359 | 45.7% | 6,512 | 13.3 | £195,639 | £558,961 |
| North Coast CT | £554,219 | 49.4% | 40205 | 10.20 | £605,224 | 45.5% | 47,296 | 10.6 | £660,717 | £1,820,160 |
| South Antrim CT | £153,963 | 51.3% | 12126 | 11.28 | £212,665 | 40.1% | 14,021 | 13.9 | £213,763 | £580,391 |
| Southern – Armagh, Lurgan, Newry & Mourne | £385,771 | 48.3% | 30207 | 15.14 | £392,247 | 45.0% | 34,788 | 18.4 | £440,642 | £1,218,660 |
| RCTP Totals | £3,251,680 | 48.6% | 214570 | 12.46 | £3,475,719 | 47.2% | 243,967 | 13.4 | £3,627,517 | £10,354,916 |