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Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking with local authorities to provide sustainable road surfacing.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
2 May 2025
Target answer date
7 May 2025
Answer
8 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking with local authorities to provide sustainable road surfacing.

  2. 7 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Government takes the condition of local roads very seriously and is committed to enabling local highway authorities to maintain and renew their local highway networks effectively. Decisions on road surfacing materials used in highway maintenance activ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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