Roads: Construction
(asked on 6th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new roads have been built in each of the last ten years; and of those how many are unadopted by local authorities.
The number of road enhancement schemes funded by the Department and completed in each of the last ten years is as follows:
| Local Road Network | Strategic Road Network |
2012/13 | 7 | n/a |
2013/14 | 6 | n/a |
2014/15 | 5 | n/a |
2015/16 | 7 | 5 |
2016/17 | 7 | 6 |
2017/18 | 3 | 10 |
2018/19 | 3 | 7 |
2019/20 | 0 | 7 |
2020/21 | 4 | 3 |
This includes all road enhancement schemes funded by the Local Major Scheme Grant or those on the Strategic Road Network (SRN) from 2015/16. It includes capacity enhancement schemes as well as new roads.
In addition, the Department has funded a number of schemes over the past 10 years from targeted funding programmes. These programmes include the Local Pinch Point Fund and National Productivity Investment Fund and these include new roads and road improvements.
The Department does not hold information on schemes that may have been funded from Local Authorities’ own budgets (including those provided through formula funding allocations such as Integrated Transport Block funding). The Department does not hold information on new roads built by third party organisations, such as private developers.
All Department-funded road schemes will have been adopted by the relevant local highway authority.