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1664806

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how they define the term ‘pothole’.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL10575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>There is no nationally agreed definition of a pothole. It is up to local authorities to decide which surface defects on the highway to treat, following a risk-based approach. This is set out in the best practice document “Well Managed Highway Infrastructure: A Code of Practice”, which is available online.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 25/10/2023 10:44:50 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1664807

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the condition of road infrastructure in England and how many potholes they have (1) identified and (2) filled to completion on (a) roads and (b) pedestrian pavements.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL10576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>Local highway authorities have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 to maintain the highways network in their area. The Act does not set out specific standards of maintenance, as it is for each individual local highway authority to assess which parts of its network need repair and what standards should be applied, based upon their local knowledge and circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The Department annually collects and publishes information on GOV.UK regarding the condition of roads in England, covering surface condition, skidding resistance, and highway maintenance treatments and expenditure. This information comes from surveys which identify a series of road surface defects, although some of these defects may be related to potholes, the number of potholes cannot be recorded. The most recent release can be read on GOV.UK.</p><p>The Department does not hold information on the condition of footpaths, this information will be held by local authorities for their own asset management needs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 25/10/2023 10:42:35 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1654956

registered interest
date	20/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the condition of road infrastructure.
tabling member printed	Viscount Goschen
uin	HL9556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2023 answer text <p>In addition to the provision of over £5.5 billion of highways maintenance capital funding for local highways authorities in England over this Parliament, the Department works with all local highway authorities in England along with National Highways to assess road surface condition on a national level. This information is presented annually in “Road conditions in England to March 2022” published on GOV.UK. It includes surface condition, skidding resistance and highway maintenance treatments and expenditure.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also working with the British Standards Institute and the Transport Research Laboratory to develop a new standard for assessing road condition. This will help authorities identify, assess, and deal with road defects, including potholes, and help drive innovation within the road monitoring sector.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 25/07/2023 15:00:33 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3602 label Biography information for Viscount Goschen

1646843

registered interest
date	22/06/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how they monitor whether local authorities are using funds provided by central Government for repairing potholes for that purpose.
tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
uin	HL8733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Transport (DfT) allocates capital funding to local highways authorities under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 (“the Act”) so that they can most effectively spend this funding on maintaining and improving their respective networks, based upon their local knowledge, circumstances, and priorities.</p><p> </p><p>Section 31 grant funding is not ringfenced as set out in the Act; it is up to the highway authority how to spend this funding to fulfil its statutory duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980. Local decision makers are democratically accountable for the decisions they take.</p><p> </p><p>DfT strongly encourages authorities to spend their allocations on highways maintenance activities and advocates a risk-based whole lifecycle asset management approach to local authority highways maintenance programmes. This considers all parts of the highway network, such as gulleys, bridges, cycleways, and lighting columns – and not just the fixing of potholes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 04/07/2023 11:25:58 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

1640672

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what support they are giving to local authorities to address accidents caused by pot holes.
tabling member printed	Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
uin	HL8152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>In Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland responsibility for maintaining the highway rests with the respective devolved administration.</p><p> </p><p>In England, local highway authorities have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 to maintain the public highway network in their area.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the capital highways maintenance funding provided by Government, the Department works with the highways sector to produce guidance and best practice and encourages good practice in local highways asset management. The Department endorses the UK Roads Leadership Group’s <em>‘Well Managed Highway Infrastructure: A Code of Practice’</em>. This provides guidance for highway authorities to consider when managing and maintaining the highways infrastructure assets for which they are responsible.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government commissioned <em>‘Potholes: a repair guide’</em>, published by the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) in March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2022 Autumn Statement, the Chancellor confirmed the three-year settlement announced at Spending Review 2021: approximately £915 million capital funding per year for local highways maintenance for local highway authorities across England outside of London and the mayoral combined authorities who are in receipt of the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, at Budget 2023 the Chancellor announced an extra £200 million for highways maintenance for the 2023/24 financial year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/06/2023 10:36:04 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

1626259

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what financial support they are providing to local authorities to improve road surfaces.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL7715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>The Government is providing local highway authorities with a three-year funding settlement for local highway maintenance amounting to approximately £915 million of capital funding per year. This funding covers the financial years 2022/23 to 2024/25 and is for local highway authorities across England outside of London and the Mayoral Combined Authorities which receive separate funding.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this settlement, at Budget 2023 the Chancellor announced an extra £200 million for highways maintenance for the 2023/24 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Mayoral Combined Authorities are receiving City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements amounting to £5.7 billion over five years, which includes funding for maintenance for their local highway networks.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 18/05/2023 10:57:02 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1453426

registered interest
date	22/03/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the backlog of road repairs nationally; and what assessment they have made of the impact such repairs will have on (1) communities, and (2) the economy.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL7194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2022 answer text <p>In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the responsibility for maintaining the highway rests with the respective devolved administrations.</p><p> </p><p>In England, National Highways is responsible for the strategic road network, that is motorways and major A roads. On the local road network local highway authorities have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 to maintain the highways network in their area.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the Government does not intervene in local highway maintenance decisions, we are providing over £2.7 billion funding for local highways maintenance for local authorities outside of London and City Region areas over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport encourages good practice in local highway maintenance for all local highway authorities and endorses the UK Roads Liaison Group’s Code of Practice on Well Managed Highway Infrastructure.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 30/03/2022 15:34:24 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1358906

registered interest
date	12/10/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much overall funding has been provided to councils in England for local road maintenance in each of the last five years, up to and including the current financial year.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL3028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>During the last five years the Department for Transport has provided over £5.9 billion by formula to local authorities in England, outside London, to support the maintenance of the local road network.</p><p> </p><p>This funding is not ring-fenced, allowing local highway authorities to spend their allocations according to their own priorities. A breakdown by financial year is in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£ bn</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>1.047</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>1.346</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>0.926</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>1.526</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>1.125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5.970</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 25/10/2021 15:20:30 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1358764

registered interest
date	11/10/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are satisfied with the law which authorises statutory authorities to obstruct the highway for the purposes of repair and maintenance.
tabling member printed	Lord Trefgarne
uin	HL2974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2021 answer text <p>Utility street works and highway authority road works, are carried out within the framework of legislation set by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and the Traffic Management Act 2004. The overall framework balances the need to ensure the essential repair and maintenance of roads, whilst reducing the disruption that such works can cause.</p><p> </p><p>We have, in recent years, continued to improve the framework of secondary legislation and we have approved lane rental schemes, which allow local authorities to charge for works on the busiest roads at the busiest times to reduce congestion. We have also introduced the Street Manager digital service, which is now used by all local highway authorities and utility companies in England to plan and manage works, providing real time, open data on live and planned works.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 14/10/2021 14:35:12 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1813 label Biography information for Lord Trefgarne

1274611

registered interest
date	07/01/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to conduct additional road maintenance while there are restrictions in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL11909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2021 answer text <p>Responsibility for managing the highway network in England, including maintenance decisions, rests with the relevant highway authority. For the Strategic Road Network, motorways and major A roads, that is Highways England. The rest of the network is managed by local highway authorities. It is for local highway authorities to decide whether to carry out additional maintenance, based on local needs and priorities.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2020 I wrote to the local highways maintenance sector, with advice on continuing with their highways maintenance works and thanking them for their efforts. The Government’s current policy is that construction activity should continue where it can be undertaken safely, in accordance with the Public Health England and industry guidance.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 13/01/2021 16:51:36 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley