Roads: Lancashire
(asked on 10th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the total funding provided to Lancashire County Council for pothole repairs in each of the last three years.
The Department for Transport is allocating £6.6 billion between 2015/16 and 2020/21 to local highway authorities for local highway maintenance funding, including for the repair of potholes or to stop them forming.
From this, it has allocated Lancashire County Council the following funding over the last three years:
Year | Funding Stream | £ M |
2017//18 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) | 22.487 |
2017/18 | Pothole Action Fund | 2.913 |
2018/19 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) | 22.465 |
2018/19 | Pothole Action Fund | 1.227 |
2018/19* | Budget £420 million | 10.229 |
2019/20 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) | 22.434 |
2019/20 | Pothole Action Fund | 0.621 |
Total |
| 82.376 |
*In the Budget, the Chancellor provided local highway authorities in England an additional £420m for highway maintenance.