Regional Funding Advice RFA 2 TRANSPORT Programme Management

1. Regional Funding Advice RFA 2TRANSPORTProgramme Management Peter Brown

2. RFA 2 Principles • This is about delivery of existing strategic objectives and priorities:RES, RSS (including RTS), SW Skills Strategy and not developing new strategies • Specific funding priorities each year to 2018/19……(and beyond ?) • Integration across funding streams - thematic and spatial (transcending boundaries) Importance of place • Option to ‘vire’ between and combine funding streamsto achieve outcomes

3. Integrated Investment Approach Total RFA c£9.5bn (2008/9 – 2018/19)

4. RFA 2 Principles Success for RFA2 will be measured by the extent to which expenditure in these blocks can be coordinated and focussed to achieve agreed strategic outcomes for the region and for particular places as stated in approved strategies Transport is scheme specific

5. RFA 2 Transport How important is transport , given that transport is not an end in itself ?! Role of the RTS and RFA funding is • To help make the Spatial Strategy work – SSCTs – assist growth & regeneration • To support the RES/economy – address connectivity

6. RFA 2 Transport As well, need to tackle Key Strategic Transport Issues in SW : • Effects of increasing Congestion • Peripherality/ resilience of networks • Accessibility & Social Exclusion • Impact of traffic growth on environment and climate change

7. Growth areas (RSS/Way Ahead) Strategically Significant Cities and Towns 21 SSCTs

10. RFA 2 Transport The Regional Role : • Regional bodies are asked to organise the advice to ministers about • priorities. Regional bodies are not scheme promoters • Regional Assembly Secretariat organises overall programme • management and reports to DfT. Programme ‘refresh’ periodically • Individual schemes are promoted by local authorities or by HA; real • issues about local authority capacity • All schemes have to pass through DfT appraisal process to gain • programme entry. DfT asks regional bodies (RA/RDA) to confirm • regional priority

11. Ground Rules RFA 2 Transport • Major Schemes included as RFA1 & RFA2 • Local transport major schemes (over £5m) including maintenance schemes • Highways Agency investment (over £5m) on roads of regional significance (i.e. not M4 & M5) • New for RFA2 • Local integrated transport and maintenance block (post 2010/11) – size & distribution • Effects of RFA2 on carbon dioxide emissions • Rail

13. RFA 2 Transport Funding Issues/ Pressures • RFA flat rate increase by 2% per annum but current construction inflation @ 10% pa (?) • RFA now to include major maintenance schemes >£5m • Can include Rail but no extra money in RFA • HA connectivity schemes largely beyond funding scope of RFA budget Conclusion….£90m pa does not go far.

15. RFA 2 Transport Programme Management Challenges • Spending the allocation…..delivery a key concern • Managing the programme – avoid bunching • Avoiding over-optimistic assumptions about timescales and costs • Complex urban package proposals need time and capacity to be worked up • Minimising delays in appraisal process…DfT • RFA 2 may be over subscribed – what are the key priorities ? Only 20% over programme allowed

16. Programme Management Issues

17. RFA 2 Transport Programme Management Techniques Possibilities • 5 years firm the rest flexible • Funding Envelopes • Stretch the Programme to 2026 • Cash Limits on schemes

18. Programme Management Approach RFA1

19. RFA 2 Transport Involving Stakeholders • Regular meetings with Technical Officers and Directors of local authorities • Regional Transport Board (elected members & SEEPs) provide a steer on priorities • Engagement with Regional Transport Forum • Wider involvement – all RFA2 strands

20. Process – a tight timetable