Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2022 to Question 73788 on Roads: Repairs and Maintenance, which highway authorities in England do not adopt a risk-based whole-life asset management approach to their highways maintenance programme; and if he will make it his policy that funds awarded for highway maintenance are conditional upon the adoption of such an approach.

The Department for Transport (DfT) allocates to local highways authorities is through a formula based on road length, number of bridges and number of streetlights.

£125 million (11%) of the highways maintenance funding is allocated via an incentive-based element conditional on local authority self-assessment of their highways maintenance practices. Question 5 specifically interrogates the extent to which each respondent is undertaking lifecycle planning as part of its highway infrastructure asset management.