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 public funds were spent on infrastructure improvement works on each road in the strategic road network in each of the last 10 years.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Public expenditure figures for each road on the strategic road network are not available. The Highways Agency publish annual accounts which are laid before Parliament which are available from the Library of the House and from the Agency’s website at: http://www.highways.gov.uk/about-us/corporate-documents/strategic-corporate-documents/annual-report-2012-2013/

Over the last ten years, total expenditure on the maintenance, management and enhancement of the strategic road network in each year was as follows:

Table showing Highways Agency total operational DEL (departmental expenditure limits) excluding accounting items such as depreciation.