Q. Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

(asked on 4th December 2023) - View Source

Questioner

Bill Esterson
(Labour - Sefton Central)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's press notice entitled £8 billion boost to repair roads and back drivers, published on 17 November 2023, what proportion of the UK's road length will be resurfaced using the announced funding.

Answered by

Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

This question was answered on 7th December 2023

Across England, local highway authorities are receiving an additional £150 million this financial year as the first instalment of the £8.3 billion roads resurfacing fund through Network North.

This is in addition to the £915 million baseline funding for 2023/24 for those English highway authorities which are outside London and outside the Mayoral Combined Authority areas in receipt of City Region Sustainable Settlements, for whom separate arrangements apply. It is also in addition to the £200 million increase for the 2023/24 financial year that was announced at Budget 2023.

All eligible highway authorities in England will receive a further uplift from the additional £150 million that is also being provided in 2024/2025. Further details of how the rest of the £8.3 billion will be allocated will be announced in due course, this is anticipated to take place at a future Spending Review.

The tables below provide confirmed funding levels for 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025, and the indicative minimum additional funding allocations between 2023 to 2024 and 2033 to 2034 inclusive.

Local Authority allocations:

Local authority	Current baseline allocation per year (HMB + Pothole Fund) (£000)	2023-24 – additional funding (£000)	2024-25 – additional funding (£000)	Minimum additional overall uplift between 2023-24 and 2033-34 (£000)
Bedford	3,728	470	470	14,725
Blackburn with Darwen	2,408	306	306	20,438
Blackpool	1,501	191	191	12,727
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	4,786	604	604	18,903
Bracknell Forest	2,124	268	268	8,391
Brighton and Hove	3,274	413	413	12,935
Buckinghamshire	13,111	1,654	1,654	51,785
Central Bedfordshire	5,564	702	702	21,983
Cheshire East	13,048	1,658	1,658	110,731
Cheshire West and Chester	9,929	1,262	1,262	84,257
Cornwall	28,325	3,573	3,573	111,883
County Durham	14,841	1,886	1,886	125,951
Cumberland	15,339	1,949	1,949	130,180
Derby	2,765	352	352	20,545
Derbyshire	23,699	3,014	3,014	176,114
Devon	52,823	6,663	6,663	208,657
Dorset	16,391	2,068	2,068	64,749
East Riding of Yorkshire	13,793	1,753	1,753	117,059
East Sussex	13,275	1,674	1,674	52,432
Essex	30,685	3,870	3,870	121,205
Gateshead	3,420	435	435	29,028
Gloucestershire	22,266	2,809	2,809	87,955
Hampshire	33,493	4,225	4,225	132,297
Herefordshire, County of	14,389	1,830	1,830	106,918
Hertfordshire	22,230	2,804	2,804	87,813
Isle of Wight	None – private financial initiative (PFI)	None – PFI	None – PFI	None – PFI
Isles of Scilly	None – separate funding arrangement	None – separate funding arrangement	None – separate funding arrangement	None – separate funding arrangement
Kent	34,058	4,296	4,296	134,531
Kingston upon Hull, City of	2,810	357	357	23,855
Lancashire	28,811	3,661	3,661	244,511
Leicester	3,262	415	415	24,241
Leicestershire	17,755	2,258	2,258	131,939
Lincolnshire	38,723	4,924	4,924	287,750
London	None – separate funding arrangement	7,530	7,530	235,804
Luton	1,708	215	215	6,746
Medway	3,177	401	401	12,552
Milton Keynes	6,397	807	807	25,263
Newcastle upon Tyne	3,389	431	431	28,758
Norfolk	35,757	4,510	4,510	141,240
North East Lincolnshire	2,491	317	317	21,145
North Lincolnshire	5,744	730	730	48,754
North Northamptonshire	8,404	1,069	1,069	62,450
North Somerset	5,011	632	632	19,789
North Tyneside	2,819	358	358	23,922
North Yorkshire	37,021	4,704	4,704	314,185
Northumberland	21,780	2,768	2,768	184,836
Nottingham	2,765	352	352	20,554
Nottinghamshire	18,630	2,369	2,369	138,443
Oxfordshire	20,846	2,629	2,629	82,340
Plymouth	2,903	366	366	11,469
Portsmouth	1,786	225	225	7,054
Reading	1,838	232	232	7,262
Rutland	2,381	303	303	17,696
Shropshire	20,599	2,619	2,619	153,072
Slough	1,129	142	142	4,457
Somerset	28,111	3,546	3,546	111,039
South Tyneside	1,933	246	246	16,408
Southampton	2,128	268	268	8,406
Southend-on-Sea	1,739	219	219	6,868
Staffordshire	25,067	3,188	3,188	186,273
Stoke-on-Trent	2,972	378	378	22,087
Suffolk	27,238	3,436	3,436	107,590
Sunderland	4,129	525	525	35,035
Surrey	20,869	2,632	2,632	82,436
Swindon	3,496	441	441	13,807
Telford and Wrekin	4,311	548	548	32,035
Thurrock	2,489	314	314	9,832
Torbay	1,820	230	230	7,193
Warrington	3,989	507	507	33,858
Warwickshire	16,171	2,056	2,056	120,168
West Berkshire	5,387	679	679	21,279
West Northamptonshire	10,669	1,357	1,357	79,281
West Sussex	17,136	2,161	2,161	67,684
Westmorland and Furness	18,474	2,347	2,347	156,777
Wiltshire	20,727	2,614	2,614	81,869
Windsor and Maidenhead	2,720	343	343	10,741
Wokingham	3,314	418	418	13,095
Worcestershire	18,738	2,383	2,383	139,243
York, City of	2,835	360	360	24,055
Total	945,663	127,249	127,249	5,731,338

Combined local authority allocations

Combined authority (CA)	Current baseline allocation per year (HMB + Pothole Fund) (£000)	2023-24 – additional funding (£000)	2024-25 – additional funding (£000)	Minimum additional uplift from 2023-24 to 2033-34 (£000)
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CA	23,062	2,909	2,909	91,095
Greater Manchester CA	City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS)	4,438	4,438	296,466
Liverpool City Region CA	CRSTS	2,684	2,684	179,225
South Yorkshire MCA	CRSTS	1,994	1,994	133,175
Tees Valley CA	CRSTS	1,499	1,499	100,104
West Midlands CA	CRSTS	2,586	2,586	151,192
West of England CA	CRSTS	2,007	2,007	62,847
West Yorkshire CA	CRSTS	4,633	4,633	309,559
CA total	Most receive funding via CRSTS	22,750	22,750	1,323,663

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