Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that developers are accountable to local authorities when appointing sub-contractors to build roads and other infrastructure; and what powers local authorities have to ensure that developers contribute adequately to the cost of maintaining roads once adopted by the local authority.

Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and section 106 contributions can be used to provide and maintain roads and other infrastructure. Our recent reforms enable local authorities to hold developers to account when infrastructure is provided as part of new development. Where developers do not deliver on contributions, this can be enforced through legal proceedings.