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Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the local highways maintenance funding formula for rural road networks.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
10 Mar 2026
Target answer date
12 Mar 2026
Answer
16 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the local highways maintenance funding formula for rural road networks.

  2. 12 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The Department has not made an assessment of the average cost of maintaining a mile of road in rural or urban local authorities. Every area faces its own unique challenges. That is why highways maintenance funding is based on established national datasets...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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