Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

Mrs. Spelman
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what statistics are collected by the Government on user satisfaction in relation to the condition of local authority-maintained highways.

Gillian Merron
The Government does not collect statistics on user satisfaction in relation to the condition of local authority-maintained highways.

Mrs. Spelman
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what statistics are collected by the Government on the condition of local authority-maintained highways in England.

Gillian Merron
The Department for Transport collects statistics from local authority surveys of road conditions which are collated and published annually in the ‘National Road Maintenance Condition Survey’. The latest of these reports relates to 2006 and a copy of the report, published on 10 May 2007, was placed in the House of Commons Library and it is also available at:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/roadstraffic/maintenance/nrmcs2006intro.

Mrs. Spelman
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment has been made of the causes of the deterioration in local authority highways in England.

Gillian Merron
The two most recent National Road Maintenance Condition Surveys (NRMCS), published in April 2005 and April 2006, both showed that the deterioration in the condition of local authority highways during the 1990s had been halted, and that there had been a significant improvement in local road conditions since 2000.