Question follow-through · 4592

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

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.

answeredDepartment for Transport

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
11 Sept 2024
Answer
11 Sept 2024 · 2 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Transport

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 11 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    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 ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Bus Services: Lincolnshire

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the number of passenger miles travelled by bus in Lincolnshire.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Railways: Spalding

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential economic benefits of introducing a Sunday service for trains serving Spalding railway station.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Railways: Electrification

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will meet Network Rail to discuss electrifying the Peterborough to Doncaster railway line.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Railways: Spalding

11 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to introduce a rail freight terminal near Spalding.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Transport: Food

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy for her Department to prioritise the (a) procurement and (b) purchase of British produced (i) food and (ii) drink.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Electric Vehicles: Lincolnshire

15 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many publicly available roadside electric vehicle chargers will be required for the phase out of the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Li

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving under Influence: Drugs

15 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of people driving while under the influence of illegal drugs.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving Licences: Foreign Nationals

22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of new driving licences were issued to foreign nationals in each of the last three years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving Tests: East Midlands

22 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test centres there are in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving Licences: Foreign Nationals

4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2024 to Question 10405 on Driving Licences: Foreign Nationals, if she will hold discussions with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency on the potential merits of recording

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Roads: South Holland and the Deepings

4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress she has made on supporting pothole repairs in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Road Traffic: Lincolnshire

4 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce congestion on roads in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.