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Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 14 November 2024UIN 13564

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of pot holes that were reported in each of the last 25 years.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

It is the responsibility of local highway authorities to manage and maintain their local highway networks, including understanding what parts of the network require maintenance, based on local needs and priorities.

Local authorities are required to provide road condition information to the Department as part of the data obligations set out in the Single Data List. The Department publishes this information on gov.uk, and the data goes back to March 2007.

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