Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total expenditure was of his Department and it's predecessor departments in 2015-16 prices on (a) highways maintenance capital block grant funding, (b) the maintenance element of block allocation local transport plan settlement and (c) the principal road maintenance element of the transport policies and programmes system in each year from 1991-92 to 2015-16; and what his Department's planned expenditure is in 2015-16 prices on the highways maintenance capital block grant in each year from 2016-17 to 2020-21.

The table below sets out the funding the Department for Transport has allocated to local highway authorities in England (outside London) for local highways maintenance in each year for which records are available. This includes the additional funding the Department for Transport has provided to local highway authorities to help fix potholes and repair local highway infrastructure damaged by severe weather since 2010/11.

Information is not held in the format requested prior to 2010/11 due to changes made in how grant funding is allocated for local highways maintenance. The figures shown are in cash terms and in 2014/15 prices (the latest available). For 2015/16 onwards, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) forecasts as at the March 2016 budget have been used.

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The Department for Transport is also funding a number of local highways maintenance and street lighting projects through the Private Finance Initiative which are not included within the table.

In addition, local highway authorities are also 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. It is for the respective local highway authorities to determine how this funding is spent based on local needs and priorities.