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Written question asked by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative) on Wednesday, 11 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 February 2009. It was answered by Paul Clark (Labour) on Monday, 23 February 2009 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the cost to the public purse was of maintaining each (a) motorway, (b) trunk road and (c) other road for which the Highways Agency was responsible in each year since 1997-98, broken down by road.
Answer

The cost to the public purse of maintaining the motorways, trunk roads and other roads for which the Highways Agency was responsible in each year since 1997-98 is as follows:

£millions
2007-08 879
2006-07 850
2005-06 852
2004-05 732
2003-04 726
2002-03 760
2001-02 711
2000-01 736
1999-2000 726
1998-99 638
1997-98 499

The expenditure figures are for maintenance on the strategic road network managed and maintained by the Highways Agency. This includes renewal of the road surface and repairs to structures, as well as routine maintenance such as gully clearing, white lining, cleaning and winter maintenance. Costs excluded are those associated with our PFI contracts and our traffic and incident management service. To provide the aggregate of this information by individual road/route would require a significant amount of additional analysis, as such could be provided only at disproportionate costs.Expenditure figures have been adjusted to account for spend relating to roads trunked or detrunked in the financial year.Spend figures prior to 2000-01 are based on cash accounting; the later years are based on resource accounting.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
488 c501W; 257398
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Roads Repairs and maintenance
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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