Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

(asked on 15th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Potholes Fund; and how many potholes have been repaired through the Potholes Fund since its establishment.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 20th November 2023

The Government provides funding for local highway authorities to carry out their statutory duties. It is up to them to determine how this funding is used on their highway networks. Funding for highways maintenance, including the Potholes Fund, is unringfenced; the Department does not collect statistics on the number of potholes filled by each local authority.

Further detail on how the Government plans to repair potholes was published on 17 November on https://www.gov.uk/government/news/8-billion-boost-to-repair-roads-and-back-drivers.

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