Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the National Audit Office report entitled, Maintaining strategic infrastructure roads, HC169, published on 6 June 2014, how many IT systems the Highways Agency and its contractors plan to use for its integrated asset management system by May 2015.

By May 2015 the Agency / contractors will be using 11 systems:

The Integrated Asset Management Information System (IAM IS) solution:

· five maintenance contractors will be live on the IAM IS Routine Maintenance / Customer Enquiry modules; and

· the IAM IS Pavements module (including network occupancy for booking road space for maintenance and the new network model) will have been rolled out to all maintenance contractors. This replaces the existing HA Pavements Management System and Schedule of Road Works.

Seven maintenance contractors will continue (until contract renewal) to use their own routine maintenance systems. It is expected that the final maintenance area will go-live in June 2016.

Three legacy databases for Structures (planned implementation July 2015), Drainage and Geotechnical (planned implementation April 2016).