Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 119742

Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

Tabled: 10 March 2026
Answered: 16 March 2026

Question

Patrick Spencer

ConservativeCentral Suffolk and North Ipswich

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the average cost of maintaining a mile of road in (a) rural and (b) urban local authorities.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The Department has not made an assessment of the average cost of maintaining a mile of road in rural or urban local authorities. Every area faces its own unique challenges. That is why highways maintenance funding is based on established national datasets...

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