Purpose

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.

Content

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