Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing five year block awards to councils for pothole management.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood
This Government takes the condition of local roads very seriously and is committed to maintaining and renewing all parts of the local highway network.
The Department recognises the benefits of providing all local highway authorities with long-term funding certainty, and will consider this carefully.
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