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Roads: Cumbria

Answer

Highways England (formerly the Highways Agency) is responsible for the Strategic Road Network and Cumbria County Council for the local road network within the Workington constituency and Allerdale district. The A595 Parton to Lillyhall improvement was the one major project that Highways England were responsible for in the wider Allerdale district since 2005. The spend profile since 2005/06 is shown below:

Year	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	Total
Spend (£m)	0.95	4.785	14.616	20.534	0.596	0.539	42.642

Highways England spent the following amounts on maintenance and improvements:

Allerdale District				Workington Constituency
Financial Year	£ million			Financial Year	£ million
2005/2006	0.917			2005/2006	0.050
2006/2007	2.123			2006/2007	0.055
2007/2008	2.536			2007/2008	0.004
2008/2009	1.917			2008/2009	0.016
2009/2010	2.151			2009/2010	0.246
2010/2011	1.365			2010/2011	0.210
2011/2012	0.484			2011/2012	0.010
2012/2013	1.476			2012/2013	0.000
2013/2014	2.553			2013/2014	0.052
2014/2015	1.597			2014/2015	0.070

The Department for Transport provides funding to local highway authorities for the local road network. For Cumbria County Council the allocations since 2005 are as follows:

Year	£ million
2005/06	15.816
2006/07	17.378
2007/08	18.691
2008/09	19.801
2009/10	26.478
2010/11	58.27
2011/12	49.197
2012/13	34.772
2013/14	47.616
2014/15	40.666
2015/16	36.708

Cumbria have also been allocated £24.6 million through the Local Growth Fund announced in July 2014 and January 2015 for transport schemes including £2m towards replacement of a life expired road bridge that provides access to the Port of Workington.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

1146

Session

2015-16

Subjects

Infrastructure Roads Workington

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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