To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer to Lord Fearn of 12 March 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA279, on roads: repair, what the published criteria referred to are. (270070)

The Department for Transport has provided emergency funding to local authorities to repair their highways on three occasions since 2001. Following the summer 2007 floods we published criteria on this funding. The criteria are available on the Department for Transport website at:

www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/ltp/guidance/fltp/floodfunding guidance.pdf