Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2025 to Question 54084 on Roads: Fylde, whether funding has been allocated for new road investment projects in 2025-26 in Fylde constituency.

The previous Answer set out the maximum 2025 to 2026 highway maintenance funding allocation from the government to Lancashire County Council as the local highway authority for the honourable member’s constituency. Grant funds provided by DfT for highways maintenance are not ringfenced, meaning that Lancashire County Council can choose how to spend this, including on road schemes within the Fylde constituency if they wish.

In addition, Lancashire Combined County Authority (the non-mayoral combined authority consisting of Lancashire County Council, Blackburn and Darwen Borough Council, and Blackpool Council) has been allocated over £9 million in 2025/26 of Integrated Transport Block (ITB) funding to support local transport maintenance and enhancements. For 2025/26 the government will top up ITB funding through the Local Transport Grant (LTG), a one-year capital grant. Lancashire Combined County Authority has been allocated nearly £35m through the LTG.

Beyond that, there are no schemes for investment in the local road network put forward by the local highway authority for support from my Department through relevant road investment funding programmes for 2025/26.

National Highways is responsible for operating, maintaining and improving the sections of strategic road network in the honourable member’s constituency. The Strategic Road Network: interim settlement 2025 to 2026 published in March set out government’s investment and management of the strategic road network for 2025/26. Following the opening of the A585 Windy Harbour to Skippool project last August, there are no new strategic road projects in Fylde in 2025/26.