PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Roads: Repairs and Maintenance (14 January 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding has been provided to the London Borough of Redbridge to tackle potholes in each year since 2010; and how that funding compares with the average funding allocated in each year to local authorities in (a) Greater London and (b) England.

Asked by:
Wes Streeting (Labour)

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 London Boroughs with additional funding to help repair potholes, as set out in the table below:

Financial Year £m	Funding Stream	Redbridge	Total for London
2010/11	Severe Weather	0.124	3.387
2010/11	Winter 2011	0.270	10.284
2013/14	Winter 2014 (paid to TfL)		10.000
2014/15	Pothole Fund	0.325	10.000
2017/18	Budget – additional funding	0.064	2.234
2018/19	Budget – highways maintenance additional funding	0.550	20.000
Total		1.333	55.905

‘Total for London’ includes Redbridge figure.

Funding for local highway authorities in England, outside London, for highways maintenance, which includes pothole repair, is available on the Department for Transport website. The latest information can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/roads-funding-information-pack

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
17 January 2019