The government grant provided to Transport for London to subsidise concessionary fares is set to rise by more than £500,000 a quarter by 2010. Department for Transport officials have published a breakdown of the fares special grant that will be handed to each local transport authority over the next three years. The new figures show that London received £13.8m for the first quarter of the current financial year, but that figure will rise to £14.4m by the final quarter of 2010/11. Former London mayor, Ken Livingstone, used the grant to fund his contentious policy of free bus and Tube travel for children under 16, as well as pensioners, in the capital. Other local authorities have experimented with similar schemes, but new London mayor, Boris Johnson, is under pressure to drop the policy. Elsewhere, the Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire passenger transport executives (PTEs) have been told they will receive quarterly rises of more than £100,000 by 2011.