Roads: North Shropshire

(asked on 11th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of potholes in North Shropshire constituency.


Answered by
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 16th July 2025

Shropshire Council, as a local highway authority, has been allocated the following highway maintenance funding since 2015:

Year

Highways Maintenance funding for Shropshire Council

2015/16

£16,498,000

2016/17

£16,160,000

2017/18

£18,756,250

2018/19

£20,588,000

2019//20

£16,948,396

2020/21

£30,253,000

2021/22

£20,599,000

2022/23

£20,599,000

2023/24

£26,880,000

2024/25

£23,218,000

2025/26

£33,680,000

The Government has already provided an additional £500 million increase for local highway maintenance this financial year. As a result of this increase, Shropshire Council will receive up to £9.1 million more in additional funding.

Building on this, at the spending review the Chancellor announced that the Government will be providing £24 billion of capital funding between 2026-27 and 2029-30 to maintain and improve motorways and local roads across the country. This funding increase will allow National Highways and local authorities to invest in significantly improving the long-term condition of England’s road network, delivering faster, safer and more reliable journeys.

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