Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
(asked on 6th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has provided for local road maintenance in each of the last 10 years.
Local highway authorities have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 to maintain the highways network in their area. During the past ten financial years the Department has provided over £11.9 billion to local highway authorities across England outside of London for highway maintenance. This includes formula funding from the Highways Maintenance Block, Pothole Action Fund (2016/17 – 2020/21), Potholes Fund (2020/21-2024/25) and the Wet Weather/Resilience fund.
Year | Maintenance Block (£m) | Additional Pothole and Other Top Ups (£m) | Wet Weather funding (£m) | Total |
2014/15 | 707 | 243 |
| 950 |
2015/16* | 976 |
| 180 | 1,156 |
2016/17* | 976 | 50 |
| 1,026 |
2017/18* | 1,051 | 121 | 50 | 1,222 |
2018/19 | 876 | 470 |
| 1,346 |
2019/20* | 1,001 | 25 | 25 | 1,051 |
2020/21* | 976 | 650 |
| 1,626 |
2021/22 | 625 | 500 |
| 1,125 |
2022/23** | 625 | 500 |
| 1,125 |
2023/24** | 625 | 700 |
| 1,325 |
Total | 8,438 | 3,259 | 255 | 11,952 |
* Financial years also include grant funding to local authorities through the Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund, a competitive funding element top-sliced from the Highways Maintenance Block.[1]
** This includes the funding that is now being paid as part of the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS).
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-highways-maintenance-challenge-fund-schemes