Additional Budget 2023 highways maintenance and pothole repair funding, 2023 to 2024
Updated 20 December 2023
Applies to England
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Allocations summary
Budget 2023 announced £200 million for highways maintenance for the financial year 2023 to 2024.
This is in addition to the existing highways maintenance funding settlement announced in the October 2021 Spending Review, which committed over £2.7 billion of local highways maintenance funding between tax years 2022 and 2025 to local authorities outside of London and the 8 largest city regions.
Highways Maintenance Block (HMB) allocations are calculated based on existing formula. Figures are then rounded.
Highways maintenance and investment policy
The Department for Transport (DfT) is committed to allocating this funding to local highways authorities so they can most effectively spend this funding on maintaining and improving their respective network, based upon their local knowledge, circumstances and priorities.
DfT strongly advocates a risk-based whole lifecycle asset management approach to local authority highways maintenance programmes. This considers all parts of the highway network, such as bridges, cycleways, and lighting columns – and not just the fixing of potholes.
It is up to the respective highway authority how best to spend this funding to fulfil their statutory duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980.
Further information and best practice on the Well-managed Highway Infrastructure Code of Practice is available from the UK Roads Leadership Group.
Additional £200 million for the Potholes Fund – Budget 2023
Highway authorities in London, and Isles of Scilly do not receive funding. London receives a separate funding settlement through TfL.
| Country | Potholes funding, Budget 2023 |
|---|---|
| England | £200,000,000 |
Where highway authorities are part of a Combined Authority, the allocation is at the level of the Combined Authority.
| Combined Authorities | Potholes funding, Budget 2023 |
|---|---|
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CA | £4,100,000 |
| Greater Manchester CA | £6,210,400 |
| Liverpool City Region CA | £3,754,400 |
| North East CA | Funding goes to the constituent local authorities |
| Sheffield City Region CA | £2,789,600 |
| Tees Valley CA | £2,096,800 |
| West Midlands ITA | £3,617,200 |
| West of England CA | £2,828,400 |
| West Yorkshire CA | £6,484,800 |
Birmingham City Council, Sheffield City Council, and the Isle of Wight Council have Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) rather than grant funding.
| Local Authorities | Potholes funding, Budget 2023 |
|---|---|
| Barnsley | South Yorkshire CA |
| Bath and North East Somerset UA | West of England CA |
| Bedford UA | £662,800 |
| Birmingham | West Midlands CA / Private Finance Initiative |
| Blackburn with Darwen UA | £428,000 |
| Blackpool UA | £266,800 |
| Bolton | Greater Manchester CA |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole UA | £850,800 |
| Bracknell Forest UA | £377,600 |
| Bradford | West Yorkshire CA |
| Brighton and Hove UA | £582,000 |
| Bristol, City of UA | West of England CA |
| Buckinghamshire | £2,330,800 |
| Bury | Greater Manchester CA |
| Calderdale | West Yorkshire CA |
| Cambridgeshire | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CA |
| Central Bedfordshire UA | £989,200 |
| Cheshire East UA | £2,319,600 |
| Cheshire West and Chester UA | £1,765,200 |
| Cornwall UA | £5,035,600 |
| County Durham UA | £2,638,400 |
| Coventry | West Midlands CA |
| Cumberland | £3,005,600 |
| Darlington UA | Tees Valley CA |
| Derby UA | £491,600 |
| Derbyshire | £4,213,200 |
| Devon | £9,390,800 |
| Doncaster | South Yorkshire CA |
| Dorset | £2,914,000 |
| Dudley | West Midlands CA |
| East Riding of Yorkshire UA | £2,452,000 |
| East Sussex | £2,360,000 |
| Essex | £5,455,200 |
| Gateshead | £608,000 |
| Gloucestershire | £3,958,400 |
| Halton UA | Liverpool City Region CA |
| Hampshire | £5,954,400 |
| Hartlepool UA | Tees Valley CA |
| Herefordshire, County of UA | £2,558,000 |
| Hertfordshire | £3,952,000 |
| Isle of Wight UA | Private Finance Initiative |
| Isles of Scilly UA | £0 |
| Kent | £6,054,800 |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of UA | £499,600 |
| Kirklees | West Yorkshire CA |
| Knowsley | Liverpool City Region CA |
| Lancashire | £5,122,000 |
| Leeds | West Yorkshire CA |
| Leicester UA | £580,000 |
| Leicestershire | £3,156,400 |
| Lincolnshire | £6,884,000 |
| Liverpool | Liverpool City Region CA |
| Luton UA | £303,600 |
| Manchester | Greater Manchester CA |
| Medway UA | £564,800 |
| Middlesbrough UA | Tees Valley CA |
| Milton Keynes UA | £1,137,200 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | £602,400 |
| Norfolk | £6,356,800 |
| North East Lincolnshire UA | £442,800 |
| North Lincolnshire UA | £1,021,200 |
| North Northamptonshire | £1,494,000 |
| North Somerset UA | £890,800 |
| North Tyneside | £501,200 |
| North Yorkshire | £6,581,600 |
| Northumberland UA | £3,872,000 |
| Nottingham UA | £491,600 |
| Nottinghamshire | £3,312,000 |
| Oldham | Greater Manchester CA |
| Oxfordshire | £3,706,000 |
| Peterborough UA | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CA |
| Plymouth UA | £516,000 |
| Portsmouth UA | £317,600 |
| Reading UA | £326,800 |
| Redcar and Cleveland UA | Tees Valley CA |
| Rochdale | Greater Manchester CA |
| Rotherham | South Yorkshire CA |
| Rutland UA | £423,200 |
| Salford | Greater Manchester CA |
| Sandwell | West Midlands CA |
| Sefton | Liverpool City Region CA |
| Sheffield | South Yorkshire CA* / Private Finance Initiative |
| Shropshire UA | £3,662,000 |
| Slough UA | £200,800 |
| Solihull | West Midlands CA |
| Somerset | £4,997,600 |
| South Gloucestershire UA | West of England CA |
| South Tyneside | £343,600 |
| Southampton UA | £378,400 |
| Southend-on-Sea UA | £309,200 |
| St. Helens | Liverpool City Region CA |
| Staffordshire | £4,456,400 |
| Stockport | Greater Manchester CA |
| Stockton-on-Tees UA | Tees Valley CA |
| Stoke-on-Trent UA | £528,400 |
| Suffolk | £4,842,400 |
| Sunderland | £734,000 |
| Surrey | £3,710,000 |
| Swindon UA | £621,600 |
| Tameside | Greater Manchester CA |
| Telford and Wrekin UA | £766,400 |
| Thurrock UA | £442,400 |
| Torbay UA | £323,600 |
| Trafford | Greater Manchester CA |
| Wakefield | West Yorkshire CA |
| Walsall | West Midlands CA |
| Warrington UA | £709,200 |
| Warwickshire | £2,874,800 |
| West Berkshire UA | £957,600 |
| West Northamptonshire | £1,896,800 |
| West Sussex | £3,046,400 |
| Westmorland and Furness | £3,005,600 |
| Wigan | Greater Manchester CA |
| Wiltshire UA | £3,684,800 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead UA | £483,600 |
| Wirral | Liverpool City Region CA |
| Wokingham UA | £589,200 |
| Wolverhampton | West Midlands CA |
| Worcestershire | £3,331,200 |
| York UA | £504,000 |
The Total may not sum to the component parts due to rounding to the nearest hundred.