Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 21 October 2021 to Question 58331 on Local Government: Snow and Ice, how many tonnes of salt were held by National Highways in (a) the strategic reserve maintained for his Department and (b) its own strategic reserve as of 1 October 2022.

National Highways, who manage the emergency salt reserves on the Department's behalf, estimate that on 01 October 2023 and 11 December 2023 it held 252,387 tonnes of salt in the strategic reserve maintained for the Department and 90,400 tonnes in its own strategic reserve. This is in comparison to an estimated 254,078 tonnes in the Department’s strategic reserve and 92,554 in National Highways strategic reserve on 01 October 2022.