Decision details

To allocate the Bus Service Improvement Plan Funding and Consolidated Active Travel Funding for 2025/26 and add both to the respective Revenue and Capital Budgets for the Lancashire Combined County Authority for 2025/26. 

To set the principle for any further grants to be announced in 2025/26 to be passported back to the constituent councils based on the allocations making up the total grant award. 

There have been recent grant award announcements from the Department of Transport (DfT) that will be payable to the Lancashire County Combined Authority in 2025/26.  These are Bus Service Improvement Programme (BSIP) and Combined Active Travel (CATF -previously known as Active Travel 5).  As the LCCA is in a transitional year in 2025/26 with some powers held concurrently with constituent authorities, it is proposed that the grants above are allocated back to the Upper Tier Constituent councils in the same proportion that the grant awards were issued by the Department of Transport.  It is also proposed that this sets the principle for other grants to be received from the Department of Transport in 2025/26 as they are announced to be similarly passported back to the constituent councils on the basis that the allocation is created. 

Whilst services delivering the revenue elements of the related services remain within each Upper Tier Constituent Council it is proposed that the whole amount of the revenue grant is passported back to the Upper Tier Authorities for this transitional year. 

There may be further grants from the Department of Transport for 2025/26.

This is deemed to be a Key Decision and the requirements of the combined authorities Rules of Procedure (Section 5 – Access to Information Rules, 25. Key Decisions) have been complied with.

The Lancashire Combined County Authority approved the recommendation(s) as set out in the report.