Roads: Easington

(asked on 8th April 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Grahame Morris Portrait
Grahame Morris
(Labour - Easington)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on improving the road network in the Easington constituency in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 14th April 2016

The maintenance of the local road network in Easington is the responsibility of Durham County Council, as local highway authority. The table below sets out how much funding the Department for Transport has allocated to the Council since 2012/13 financial year:

£millions

Financial Year

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

Highway Maintenance Block

10.679

10.132

9.780

11.886

10.897

Incentive Fund

N/A

N/A

N/A

N.A

0.666

Highway Maintenance Block Top Up

N/A

1.836

1.007

N/A

N/A

Integrated Transport Block

3.183

3.183

4.475

13.949

13.949

Wet Weather Payments

N/A

1.242

N/A

N/A

N/A

Flood Recovery

N/A

N/A

N/A

1.100

N/A

Pothole Fund

N/A

N/A

2.198

N/A

0.784

Total

13.862

16.393

17.460

26.935

26.296

Local highway authorities are able to use revenue funding for maintaining their local highways and this is allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant.

Durham County Council is part of the North East Combined Authority. From 2015/16 Integrated Transport Block Funding has been paid to the North East Combined Authority and Durham will receive a proportion of that funding.

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