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Roads: North Herefordshire

Asked by Dr Ellie ChownsGreen PartyDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 5 March 2025UIN 33739

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she plans to take to improve road safety in North Herefordshire constituency in the 2025-26 financial year.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

Local authorities often use Integrated Transport Block funding for road safety improvements: the Department hopes to announce ITB allocations for 2025/26 for Herefordshire and other authorities shortly. This will allow Herefordshire County Council to decide how best to use the available funding: the Department does not get involved in local authority decision making of this sort.

On highways maintenance, all local authority allocations for highway maintenance block capital funding in 2025/26, including for Herefordshire County Council, were announced by the Secretary of State for Transport on 20 December 2024 and are published on gov.uk. Herefordshire County Council will be receiving an uplift of over £6.1 million compared to the current financial year, taking its total funding for the year to nearly £23 million.

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