Grahame Morris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Grahame Morris on 2016-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on improving the road network in the Easington constituency in each of the last five years.
Andrew Jones
The maintenance of the local road network in Easington is the responsibility of Durham County Council, as local highway authority. The table below sets out how much funding the Department for Transport has allocated to the Council since 2012/13 financial year:
£millions
Financial Year |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
Highway Maintenance Block |
10.679 |
10.132 |
9.780 |
11.886 |
10.897 |
Incentive Fund |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N.A |
0.666 |
Highway Maintenance Block Top Up |
N/A |
1.836 |
1.007 |
N/A |
N/A |
Integrated Transport Block |
3.183 |
3.183 |
4.475 |
13.949 |
13.949 |
Wet Weather Payments |
N/A |
1.242 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Flood Recovery |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
1.100 |
N/A |
Pothole Fund |
N/A |
N/A |
2.198 |
N/A |
0.784 |
Total |
13.862 |
16.393 |
17.460 |
26.935 |
26.296 |
Local highway authorities are able to use revenue funding for maintaining their local highways and this is allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant.
Durham County Council is part of the North East Combined Authority. From 2015/16 Integrated Transport Block Funding has been paid to the North East Combined Authority and Durham will receive a proportion of that funding.