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Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 38041 on Roads: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the complete resurfacing of an existing road is classed as capital or revenue expenditure.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
2 Apr 2025
Answer
4 Apr 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 31 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2025 to Question 38041 on Roads: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the complete resurfacing of an existing road is classed as capital or revenue expenditure.

  2. 2 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 4 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    It is up to local highway authorities’ Section 151 officers to determine what types of highway maintenance expenditure can legitimately be classed as capital and what as revenue expenditure, following the advice provided by the Chartered Institute of Publ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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