PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Roads: Repairs and Maintenance (15 May 2018)

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.

Asked by:
Wes Streeting (Labour)

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.

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.

Year	£m
2010	0.124
2011	0.270
2014	0.325
2018	0.064
Total	0.783

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
21 May 2018