Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
(asked on 5th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department plans to provide to repair potholes on public highways in Bournemouth East constituency in the next 12 months.
The Bournemouth East constituency is in the Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole (BCP) Council local authority area.
The next twelve months straddle two financial years, and details for each financial year are set out in the table below. In total over these two financial years the Government is providing around £11.6 million to BCP Council towards the maintenance of the local highway network in their area.
Table 1: funding allocations for Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole (BCP) Council
| Highways Maintenance Block (HMB) | Potholes Fund | Budget 2023 Uplift | Uplift arising from HS2 Euston savings | Total |
2023/24 | 2,659,000 | 2,127,000 | 850,800 | 604,000 | £6,240,800 |
2024/25 | 2,659,000 | 2,127,000 | n/a | 604,000 | £5,390,000 |
The funding increases announced in Budget 2023 and as part of the Network North programme mean that in 2023/24 BCP is receiving around 30% more than it was in 2022/23. Funding allocations can be found on gov.uk.