Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of potential mandatory training for those local authorities which, according to local road maintenance transparency reports, are not carrying out any preventative road maintenance.

To qualify for their full share of this year’s £500m uplift in highways maintenance funding, local authorities had to publish transparency reports and set out how they comply with best practice, including in relation to preventative maintenance which is more cost effective than the reactive patching of potholes. The findings from the transparency reports enable the department to identify where extra support may be needed to ensure compliance with best practice. The department will set out more detail on the further support and training it will make available to local authorities in due course.