- Request
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1) Please provide (a) the budget allocated for roads in general (including repairs, resurfacing and traffic lights and (b) the budget allocated specifically for pothole and road repairs for each of the following financial years: 2018/2019; 2019/2020; 2020/2021; 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.
2) For each of these annual budgets, please provide a figure for how much of the sum was funded by the council and how much is provided by central government funding.
3) For each of these annual budgets for both (a) roads in general and (b) potholes and similar road repairs, please provide a figure for how much was spent on pothole and road repairs.
4) For each of these annual budgets for both (a) roads in general and (b) potholes and similar road repairs, please provide a figure for how much was spent on road resurfacing.
5) For each of these annual budgets for both (a) roads in general and (b) potholes and similar road repairs, please provide a figure for how much was spent on non-road related spending and a brief summary of what this was - ie care.
For each of these annual budgets for both (a) roads in general and (b) potholes and similar road repairs, please provide a figure for how much money is or was left over by the end of the financial year
- Decision
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Please see table for question 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Year
Question1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Budget total
DfT
LCC
2018/19
£50,440,059
£32,634,000
£17,806,059
£3,906,168
£28,952,642
2019/20
£64,728,059
£31,925,000
£32,803,059
£3,742,871
£30,358,000
2020/21
£69,279,427
£51,061,000
£18,218,427
£4,300,000
£33,042,682
2021/22
£70,670,124
£38,723,000
£31,947,124
£4,400,000
£28,900,010
2022/23
£79,456,009
£38,723,000
£40,733,009
£6,398,500
£40,296,700
3. Pothole repair budgets are covered by a number of treatment types and budget allocations but for the purpose of this response, they include all reactive repairs for both footway and carriageway potholes, emergencies, drainage, signage, barriers etc. as these are not allocated separately and form part of the reactive service budget.
4. Resurfacing is an undefined term and a large number of different treatments types and budgets could be considered ‘resurfacing’. In order to answer this question, all surfacing, patching and surface dressing have been included. These budgets are separate to those identified for question 3 although will also be used to treat potholes and road repairs but are a longer term solution and are not generally of a reactive nature.
5. All budgets allocated to Highways are spent within the Highways Service and not spent in other areas.
Lincolnshire County Council Highways Service has not reported an underspend in any of the financial years identified.
- Reference number
- 7039921
- Date request received
- 7 June 2023
- Date of decision
- 23 June 2023