Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which local highways authorities are not members of maintenance alliances.

The Department does not hold the information on which local highway authorities are members or not of maintenance alliances as it is for each highway authority to decide on whether they wish to become a member.

The Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme does, however, hold information on each alliance that has been formed and this can be seen at the following weblink:

http://www.highwaysefficiency.org.uk/connect-and-share/connect/collaborative-alliances.html

In July 2012 the Programme published a toolkit which promotes the benefits of highway authorities working collaboratively with other authorities as part of an alliance. This toolkit can be found at the following weblink:

http://www.highwaysefficiency.org.uk/efficiency-resources/collaboration--change/local-highway-authorities-collaborative-alliances-toolkit.html