Priti Patel – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Priti Patel on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department has provided to each local authority for highways in each of the last 10 years.

Mr Robert Goodwill

I have placed a table in the Libraries of the House which sets out how much each local highway authority has been allocated for highways in the last ten years.

This table includes funding we have provided through a number of funding streams including Highways Maintenance Integrated Transport Block, Local Major Projects, Local Pinch Point Fund and Community Infrastructure Fund projects.

Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for maintaining their local highways. Neither revenue nor capital highways maintenance block funding is ring-fenced and it is for local highway authorities to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services that they provide.

The Department is also funding local highways maintenance projects in Portsmouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, Isle of Wight and the London Borough of Hounslow through the Private Finance Initiative.