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Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 28 April 2025UIN 46981

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press notice entitled PM tells councils to prove action on pothole plague to unlock extra cash and reveals £4.8 billion for major roads, published on 23 March 2025, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing information on councils' progress in mending potholes centrally.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

In the first instance it will be up to local highway authorities to publish their progress reports on their own websites, as set out in the Department’s letter of 24 March to local authority chief executive officers which is available on gov.uk. The Department will review authorities’ reports and determine in due course what information to publish centrally.

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