Question follow-through · 27177
Motor Vehicles: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many claims have been successful for vehicles that have been damaged by potholes in the last year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many claims have been successful for vehicles that have been damaged by potholes in the last year.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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5 Feb 2025
Answer published
On England’s Strategic Road Network, compensation claims of this sort are a matter for National Highways, and their website provides further details of how claims are dealt with. Between 1 January and 31 December 2024, National Highways received 1552 clai...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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