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934712

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department has allocated to road repairs as a result of damage caused by hot weather.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	160725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2018 answer text <p>Funding for local roads is devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport is providing local highway authorities in England, outside London, with £6.2 billion funding between 2015 and 2021 for local highways maintenance. This includes £296 million to repair potholes or to stop them forming. It is for highway authorities to determine whether to use this funding to help repair any roads damaged due to the current hot weather.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 10/07/2018 14:37:10 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

906421

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to encourage the use of (a) recycled plastic materials and (b) other innovative and durable techniques for road repairs.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	145382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>The use of recycled plastic materials as a component in road surfacing is not widespread. Officials at the Department for Transport are, however, aware that it has been used in a small proportion of England’s strategic road network for high friction surfacing materials, and on one short stretch of public road in England.</p><p>Officials from the Department have been in discussion with Cumbria County Council, which is trialling the use of recycled plastic materials in their road resurfacing, and with the company that supplies the material. They will continue to monitor the situation and any outcomes, positive or negative, from the trial currently underway.</p><p>The Department is also encouraging local highway authorities to trial new innovations and technology to help repair the roads for which they are responsible. The Department recently announced that it is working in collaboration with the Association of Directors of Environment, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) on future-proofing the local road network through the use of smart infrastructure and new materials.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 24/05/2018 10:40:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

904677

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received from (a) the Local Government Association and (b) local authorities on the allocation of additional funding from central government to tackle potholes.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	144363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Transport receives representations from a variety of organisations, including the Local Government Association and local highway authorities, regarding funding for local highways maintenance. Ministers have met the Local Government Association to discuss a range of issues including highways maintenance.</p><p>The responsibility for local highways maintenance in London, including repairing potholes, is a devolved matter and therefore falls to Transport for London and the London Boroughs. Since 2010, the Department for Transport has allocated the London Borough of Redbridge with additional funding, on top of the GLA funding, to help repair potholes as set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>0.124</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>0.270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>0.325</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>0.064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>0.783</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 144364 question first answered 21/05/2018 16:44:43 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

896375

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will issue guidance to local highway authorities to ensure they have comprehensive and effective programmes to identify and repair potholes that require urgent attention.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	140613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>Guidance to local highway authorities to ensure they can identify and repair potholes that require urgent attention is set out in the Well Managed Highway Infrastructure Code of Practice, which is issued by UK Roads Liaison Group and endorsed by the Department for Transport. The Code provides guidance on areas including preventative maintenance and ensuring authorities are delivering “right first time” repairs. The guidance can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.ukroadsliaisongroup.org/en/utilities/document-summary.cfm?docid=4F93BA10-D3B0-4222-827A8C48401B26AC" target="_blank">http://www.ukroadsliaisongroup.org/en/utilities/document-summary.cfm?docid=4F93BA10-D3B0-4222-827A8C48401B26AC</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/05/2018 12:43:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

890453

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost of insurance claims for pot-hole damage has been to the public purse in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	137560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>In England, Highways England is responsible for the strategic road network, that is motorways and major A roads. Local roads, making up around 98% of the road network, fall under the responsibility of the relevant local highway authority. Highways maintenance in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is a devolved matter and therefore falls under the responsibility of the respective Devolved Administrations. The Department is providing local authorities in England, outside London, with funding of £6.2 billion for local highways maintenance and to help repair potholes or stop them forming.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport does not hold information on what the estimated cost of insurance claims has been to the public purse in the last 12 months due to pothole damage. The matter of insurance and dealing with any compensation claims due to possible defects, including potholes, on the highway network is entirely a matter for the relevant highway authority, who have delegated statutory responsibility for managing and maintaining their roads as set out in the Highways Act 1980 (as amended).</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/05/2018 16:39:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

890498

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Government undertook its sampling to establish which roads would be included in the Major Road Network.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	137516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The approach to defining roads included in the indicative Major Road Network (MRN) is explained in the Department’s consultation document published in December 2017. It includes a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, building on the network that was published in the Rees Jeffrey Road Fund Report (October 2016). The network in the Rees Jeffrey Road Fund Report was based on the road network as of 6th April 2017 and traffic levels in 2014. The Department intends to update this information before deciding on the final network, to ensure that it is based on up to date data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/04/2018 10:34:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

891261

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on Government support for local authorities to maintain local roads.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	905039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Transport meets regularly with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to discuss a wide range of issues.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport is allocating over £6 billion in capital funding to support local highway authorities in England, outside London, to maintain the roads for which they are responsible. This includes a £296 million pothole action fund in order to repair potholes and to stop them forming.</p><p> </p><p>The funding is not ring-fenced and it is entirely for each authority to determine how their funding allocation is utilised based on their needs and priorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/04/2018 11:25:14 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

886281

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department is providing to local authorities to help them with the repair and maintenance of potholes.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	136476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government is providing local highway authorities in England, outside London, with just over £6 billion for local highways maintenance between 2015 and 2021. This funding includes a Pothole Action Fund, which totals £296 million between 2016 and 2021 to allow authorities to repair potholes or stop them forming in the first place.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport announced in January 2017 that it is undertaking an innovative trial on the way potholes are identified and managed, working in partnership with Thurrock, York and Wiltshire councils and two private sector SMEs, Soenecs and Gaist. This trial allows high-definition cameras to be mounted to refuse collection vehicles and by deploying innovative intelligent software will identify road surface problems before they become potholes. The trial recently won an award for the best use of new technology in the highways sector.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also announced in March 2018 that it is investing more than £900,000 in innovations using connected vehicles to help councils more efficiently manage and plan maintenance works. These trials will ultimately help provide councils with data to enable them to repair potholes before they occur as well as maintain their other assets more effectively as part of their asset management plans. This will help prevent further potholes and other road defects occurring over time.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport is also providing funding to the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) to work on technological and innovative improvements to future-proof the local road network.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/04/2018 09:45:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

882305

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) funding and (b) other support his Department makes available for improving major road junctions.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	135444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government has made £12bn of funding available through the Local Growth Fund in the current Spending Review period which can be used to improve roads, including major road junctions.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities have also had the opportunity to bid for individual large schemes to be funded through the Large Local Major scheme competition.</p><p> </p><p>Additional funding will be made available from the National Road Fund to fund schemes on the Strategic Road Network and Major Road Network.</p><p>The Government is also investing over £15 billion in the Strategic Road Network to improve road and junction capacity.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/04/2018 15:20:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

844112

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, hat estimate he has made of the cost to (a) Government and (b) local authorities of filling in potholes in England in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
uin	128452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has made no formal estimate of the cost to (a) Government and (b) local authorities of filling in potholes in England in 2016 or 2017. The Department for Transport has no current plans to estimate the cost to the public purse of repairing all potholes on public roads, although others have made informal estimates of their own.</p><p> </p><p>The Government, for the first time, has set up a dedicated fund for potholes. This is providing local highway authorities in England, outside London, £296 million between 2016 and 2021, including an extra £46 million announced in the 2017 autumn Budget.</p><p> </p><p>This funding is in addition to just under £6 billion the Government is providing to local highway authorities for local highway maintenance in England, outside London.</p><p> </p><p>The management and maintenance of the local highway network falls under the responsibility of highway authorities, such as Lancashire County Council. The Department for Transport endorses the Code of Practice on Well-Managed Highway Infrastructure as published by the UK Roads Liaison Group.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has made no formal estimate of the total value of compensation for cars damaged on the local road network.</p><p> </p><p>Local highway authorities are responsible for maintaining local roads in their area and are therefore also responsible for compensation.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 128453 128456 128457 question first answered 26/02/2018 14:54:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans