Extra £2.7m for Cambridgeshire road repairs
Thursday, 24 March, 2011
Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for transport, wrote to Councillor Jill Tuck, Leader of Conservative controlled Cambridgeshire County Council, on 24 March to say that the Government is providing £2,681,869 to the Council for additional road maintenance. This is on top of the £1m provided last year.
It is part of the £200m of extra funding for local highway authorities in England that the DfT is providing – a significant extra investment in road maintenance at a rime of severe fiscal restraint and double the amount it was originally intending to allocate this financial year.
The £2.7 being allocated to Cambridgeshire is based on a funding formula that takes into account road length and condition.
It will be paid by 28 March.
