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<p>Under the 1980 Highway Act, it is the responsibility of the local highway authority,
such as the City of York Council, to maintain and manage the highway network they
are responsible for. The Government provides highway maintenance and other funding
to local authorities but does not collect data on how much each one spends on repairing
potholes: this is a matter for each local highway authority.</p><p> </p><p>In 2023/24,
the Government provided the City of York Council with £3.69 million of capital funding
for local highway maintenance. This represents an increase of around 30% compared
to the previous year, made possible in part by reallocating funding that would otherwise
have been spent on the HS2 programme.</p><p> </p><p>The Department annually collects
and publishes statistics on gov.uk that detail the condition and maintenance of the
highways in England. This includes total expenditure on the local highway network
in England, broken down by structural maintenance, routine treatments, and highways
planning and strategy on different categories of road:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/road-condition-statistics-data-tables-rdc"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/road-condition-statistics-data-tables-rdc</a></p>
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