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date	15/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commit to new funding for local authorities to repair damaged roads and potholes.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	56484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>This Government recognises that maintaining local roads is a key priority for local communities and businesses.</p><p> </p><p>At the last Spending Review, the Chancellor committed £1.125 billion in 2021/22 for local roads maintenance including the £500 million Potholes Fund committed in the manifesto. This represents a £125 million increase on typical annual funding from Spending Review 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Maintenance in London, including repairing potholes, is a matter for Transport for London and the London Boroughs. This Government has supported TfL with c£4bn in emergency Covid support since the start of the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>We will set out future highways maintenance funding at Spending Review 2021.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 25/10/2021 07:59:01 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

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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