Mentions:
1: Lord Howard of Rising (Con - Life peer) potential danger, clear ditches, remove obstacles from footpaths and perform many other unsung acts of maintenance - Speech Link
2: Viscount Goschen (Con - Life peer) Proactive maintenance such as ditch clearing, flood prevention and pothole mending to prevent major schemes - Speech Link
3: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) He was right to point out the importance of proper highway maintenance, and the bugbear of many people - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) It is sometimes essential to do maintenance work over the weekends, and I appreciate that that can cause - Speech Link
2: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) Decisions about speed limits on local roads are matters for the local highway authority. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) We really must ask local highway authorities to do better.Let me turn to one of the groups we know are - Speech Link
2: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) measures through national funding, which includes £7.3 billion of capital funding for local highways maintenance - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) We are clear that local authorities should focus on long-term preventive maintenance, as well as long-lasting - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) These strategic assets should sit under a single authority with responsibility for maintenance, repairs - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) To put that into perspective, that is half the sum spent on repair and maintenance for all bridges over - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) and Fulham council—there is no getting around this point—holds the statutory duty to maintain the highway - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) This Labour Government are providing £7.3 billion for highways maintenance over four years, doubling - Speech Link
2: Clive Jones (LD - Wokingham) Between 2020 and 2022 when the Conservatives led the council, they cut the road maintenance budget by - Speech Link
3: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) Capital funding for highways maintenance has not been cut in Wokingham. - Speech Link
4: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) We are almost doubling the amount of money going to local highways maintenance to turn the tide. - Speech Link
5: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) Lady will know that roadworks on local roads are the responsibility of each local highway authority. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Rule 64 of The Highway Code states that you must not cycle on a pavement. - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) She was talking about things that she does not remember in the Highway Code. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) Adapting the highway to future resilience needs is an established part of highways maintenance best practice - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I would like to clarify something on the Highway Code. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None The Government continue to invest significantly in improving local highway infrastructure, and Devon - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) For the first time, councils have multi-year funding for local roads maintenance. - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) The very wet start to 2026 has made repairs more difficult and maintenance windows shorter. - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) this year—as part of the largest uplift to the highways maintenance block in England’s history. - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) of its roads, its maintenance plans and how it is investing the uplift it has received. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) generations—not to mention inward investment to towns, cities and rural communities—as well as for essential maintenance - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) quantum difference between people passing through a locale who are dressed to cycle on the public highway - Speech Link