roads, infrastructure, maintenance, budgets
Maintaining strategic infrastructure: roads - Chair's statement
6 June 2014
A statement from the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts.
It is very frustrating that the Department for Transport still has not got a grip on how it funds road maintenance and improvement works so they can be planned sensibly. Since 2010, additional funding has been announced 10 separate times, clearly showing that the Department has no long-term funding plan to make sure the road network runs properly.
This short-termism will undoubtedly lead to increased costs in the long run as the work needed becomes more substantial and road conditions worsen.
I look forward to discussing this with officials when they appear before us on 18 June.