Written question asked by Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party) on Thursday, 3 December 2015, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 17 December 2015. It was answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative) on Thursday, 17 December 2015 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Roads: Construction

Question: To ask Her Majesty’s Government on how many occasions since 2010 they have provided additional funding to local authority road building schemes.

Answer

Since 2010 additional funding, above that allocated at the initial approval stage, has been provided to five local authority road schemes as follows:

Norwich Northern Distributor Road - £10m

Fletton Parkway Widening (Peterborough) - £0.9m

Hartford Bridge Roundabout (Hampshire) - £0.4m

A4600 University Hospital Junction (Coventry) - £0.1m

Stafferton Way (Windsor and Maidenhead) - £0.8m

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