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Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 26 March 2026UIN 121827

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of trends in the number of potholes filled in (a) 2023–24, (b) 2024-25 (c) 2025-26.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

As announced in March 2025, local highway authorities had to publish transparency reports about their highways maintenance activities to unlock their full share of the Government’s £500m uplift for local highways maintenance for the 2025/26 financial year. This included publishing an estimate of the number of potholes they have filled in each of the last five years. Reports are now available on local highway authorities’ websites.

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