Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria local authorities will be measured against when applications for funding from the Pothole Action Fund are considered.

The Pothole Action Fund is worth £250 million over the next five years to local highway authorities in England, outside London. On 7 April the Government announced the share each local highway authority will receive from the £50 million available for 2016/17. Funding for this year was allocated according to the length of the road network each local highway authority is responsible for as set out in the Department for Transport Road Statistics Publication.

Gloucestershire County Council received £1,006,000 from the Pothole Action Fund in 2016/17.

Further details, including the share of the funding allocated to each local highway authority, can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cash-for-councils-to-fill-almost-1-million-potholes

No decisions have yet been taken in respect of future years allocations from the Fund.