Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will introduce a Pot Hole Fund similar to the 2015 scheme where all funding was ring-fenced for (a) repairing and (b) prevention of potholes; and if he will make a statement.

The Pothole Action Fund that ran from 2016/17 to 2020/21 was allocated to eligible local highway authorities through the Section 31 grant process. Funding provided in this way is not ringfenced as set out in the Local Government Act 2003, but grant funding letters come with grant agreements which include conditions of spend that local authorities must adhere to.