§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 15 July 2002,Official Report, column 7W, on road and bridge maintenance, if he will make a statement on the methodology used when calculating the authorities' funding requirements for road and bridge maintenance from 2001 to 2006. [71373]
§ Mr. Jamieson[holding answer 19 July 2002]: The Local Transport Plan indicative allocations for highway maintenance announced in November 2000 for 2001–02 and 2002–03 were mainly based on the size and condition of the individual authorities' road networks and the number of their bridges requiring strengthening and structural maintenance. Some large maintenance schemes above £5 million in value were approved individually. Authorities were also told that their maintenance allocations for each of the three years 2003–04, 2004–05, and 2005–06 would be at least 75 per cent. of their allocation in 2002–03.
Consultation on the methodology for the full maintenance allocations in the next three years is currently taking place.