[holding answer 8 January 2007]: Information on public (central and local government) and private funding for transport infrastructure in Great Britain is published in Table 1.14 of “Transport Statistics Great Britain (TSGB)”, which is available on the Department for Transport’s website (www.dft.gov.uk) and is available in the Library of the House. These figures cover both new construction and structural maintenance, but the available expenditure data do not enable new road construction to be identified as a separate category.
Information on expenditure on road maintenance for England and Wales is available from Tables 8.2 and 8.3 of the “National Road Maintenance Condition Survey 2005”, also available on the Department for Transport’s website (www.dft.gov.uk) and the Library. Data for Scotland are published in Table 11.2 and 11.3 “Scottish Transport Statistics 2006 Edition” by the Scottish Executive, available on www.scotland.gov.uk. These sources identify expenditure on structural maintenance, but overlaps in definition mean that these sources can not be combined with the investment data from Table 1.14 to estimate total expenditure on road building and maintenance.