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    Home - UK News - Prove how many potholes you’ve fixed or lose cash, councils told

    Prove how many potholes you’ve fixed or lose cash, councils told

    Prove how many potholes you’ve fixed or lose cash, councils told

    Prove how many potholes you’ve fixed or lose cash, councils told

    • WTX News Editor
    • March 23, 2025
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    Cliff Notes

    • The government mandates local councils in England to publish annual reports detailing pothole repairs to receive full funding from a £1.6bn road repair package, with a risk of losing a quarter of an additional £500m if they do not comply.
    • A £4.8bn funding package is set for National Highways to support critical road construction and maintenance within the 2025-2026 budget, aiming to alleviate public dissatisfaction over road conditions.
    • The Local Government Association warns that while funding will address road repair backlogs, a comprehensive long-term funding strategy is essential to facilitate cost-effective preventative measures against future road issues.

    Prove how many potholes you’ve fixed or lose cash, councils told | Politics News

    The government is telling local councils they must publish data on how many potholes they have fixed or risk losing their share of an extra £500m set aside for fixing roads.

    From the middle of next month, local authorities across England will start to receive their allocation of the £1.6bn for fixing roads across the country.

    But in order to get the full amount, all councils must publish annual reports on how many potholes they’ve filled – or see a quarter of the additional £500m in funding the government has allocated this year withheld.

    By 30 June, all councils must publish reports detailing how much they are spending, how many potholes they have filled, what percentage of their roads are in what condition, and how they are minimising disruption.

    Meanwhile, the transport secretary is unveiling a funding package of £4.8bn for 2025-6 for National Highways to deliver critical road schemes and maintain motorways and major A-roads.

    This new money will mean “pivotal” road construction schemes can be pushed forward, the government said.

    This is a key part of Downing Street’s drive to ensure the voting public sees and feels the difference the government is making in their local communities as they fight off a challenge from Reform UK.

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    The transport secretary has promised £4.8bn for National Highways to deliver improvements and maintenance. Pic: PA

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said: “The broken roads we inherited are not only risking lives but also cost working families, drivers and businesses hundreds – if not thousands of pounds – in avoidable vehicle repairs.

    “British people are bored of seeing their politicians aimlessly pointing at potholes with no real plan to fix them. That ends with us.

    “We’ve done our part by handing councils the cash and certainty they need – now it’s up to them to get on with the job, put that money to use and prove they’re delivering for their communities.”

    Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said: “After years of neglect we’re tackling the pothole plague, building vital roads and ensuring every penny is delivering results for the taxpayer.”

    Responding to the announcement, the transport spokesperson for the Local Government Association said the cash will “help start to address the previously ever-growing backlog of local road repairs” which, he added, “could take more than a decade to fix”.

    Councillor Adam Hug also called for the government to “play its full part” by using its Spending Review “to ensure that councils receive sufficient, long-term funding certainty, so they can focus their efforts on much more cost-effective, preventative measures”.

    The Conservatives have responded by claiming Labour “want credit for handing councils a pothole sticking plaster”.

    Gareth Bacon, shadow transport secretary, continued: “Labour are running on empty. They’ve got no plan for motorists, no grip on the problem, and no credibility.

    “Voters shouldn’t be fooled – Labour aren’t fixing the roads, they’re steering Britain into a ditch.”

    Spending on roads and cuts in Whitehall

    The spending on roads across England comes as the Chancellor is preparing to make billions of pounds of spending cuts at the spring statement on Wednesday.

    A turbulent economic climate since October means the £9.9bn gap in her fiscal headroom (the amount she could increase spending or cut taxes without breaking her fiscal rules) has been wiped out.

    The government has confirmed it will force the civil service to slash £2bn a year from its budget by cutting administration costs by the end of the decade.

    Rachel Reeves told Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips she is “confident” they can cut 10,000 jobs from “back office” roles to ensure resources can be spent on front-line services.

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    Chancellor says 10,000 civil service roles could be axed
    A total of £5bn is expected to be saved by making it more difficult to qualify for Pip, and also abolishing the work capability assessment in 2028, which determines whether someone on universal credit is fit to work.

    Quangos are also on the chopping block, with the prime minister having already announced NHS England is being abolished to both bring the health service back under more direct ministerial control, and also save money.

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    Money is being redirected towards defence, with the chancellor expected to announce £400m in spending on the government’s new UK Defence Investment body to “harness UK ingenuity and boost military technology”, The Mirror reports.

    And the full details of how international aid funding will be reallocated to defence are expected, after the prime minister said UK defence spending will rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027.


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    How will the UK scale up defence?

    Speaking to Trevor Phillips, the chancellor said “the world has changed” as she laid the groundwork for the spring statement.

    “We’ll respond to the change and continue to meet our fiscal rule,” she said. “But we’re also shaping the new world, whether that’s in the defence and security realm, or indeed on the Economy.

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    The chancellor highlighted that “interest rates have been cut three times since the general election”, adding: “That’s a far cry from the 11% inflation and the interest rate hikes that we saw under the previous government.”

    But shadow chancellor Mel Stride said the government has not “gripped the economy”, accusing ministers of having talked it down and having a negative impact on growth.

    The government mandates local councils in England to publish annual reports detailing pothole repairs to receive full funding from a £1.6bn road repair package, with a risk of losing a quarter of an additional £500m if they do not comply.
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