Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
(asked on 14th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding has been provided to the London Borough of Redbridge to tackle potholes in each year since 2010; and how that funding compares with the average funding allocated in each year to local authorities in (a) Greater London and (b) England.
The responsibility for local highways maintenance in London, including repairing potholes, is a devolved matter and therefore falls to Transport for London and the London Boroughs. Since 2010, the Department for Transport has allocated London Boroughs with additional funding to help repair potholes, as set out in the table below:
Financial Year £m | Funding Stream | Redbridge | Total for London |
2010/11 | Severe Weather | 0.124 | 3.387 |
2010/11 | Winter 2011 | 0.270 | 10.284 |
2013/14 | Winter 2014 (paid to TfL) |
| 10.000 |
2014/15 | Pothole Fund | 0.325 | 10.000 |
2017/18 | Budget – additional funding | 0.064 | 2.234 |
2018/19 | Budget – highways maintenance additional funding | 0.550 | 20.000 |
Total |
| 1.333 | 55.905 |
‘Total for London’ includes Redbridge figure.
Funding for local highway authorities in England, outside London, for highways maintenance, which includes pothole repair, is available on the Department for Transport website. The latest information can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/roads-funding-information-pack