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Roads: Finance

Answer

Over the last five years, the Highways Agency has budgeted, and spent, the following amounts on road maintenance.

£ million
	Budget	Spend
2002-03	740	760
2003-04	748	726
2004-05	730	732
2005-06	865	852
2006-07	862	850

The Department provides capital funding to local highway authorities in England (except London), to support the highways maintenance aspects of their local transport plans. The sums allocated for the period 2002-03 to 2006-07 are as follows:

	£ million
2002-03	545
2003-04	546
2004-05	634
2005-06	634
2006-07	674

The Department also supports English local authorities (in this case, including London boroughs) that have entered into private finance initiative (PFI) contracts for highways maintenance, including street lighting maintenance schemes, by providing credits to cover the cost of increased capital funding. The total sums disbursed by the Department were as follows:

	Budget/spend (£ million)
2002-03	0.3
2003-04	1.8
2004-05	7.7
2005-06	12.6
2006-07	22.6

As these sums are only provided against agreed contracts, the budget and spend figures are the same.In addition, we have funded a number of major maintenance projects, each of which costs over £5 million. In total, these projects were allocated the following budgets at the start of each year, together with the actual in-year spend of:

£ million
	Budget	Spend
2002-03	12.3	12.3
2003-04	9.6	9.6
2004-05	6.1	6.4
2005-06	6.6	13.4
2006-07	9.1	13.3

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

160512; 465 c1310-1W

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Finance Roads Repairs and maintenance

Link

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