AQW 28867/17-22

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 27/01/2022
Answered On Date: 09/02/2022
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for a breakdown of roads maintenance capital funding bids made during monitoring rounds since the re-establishment of devolution in 2007, broken down by each separate monitoring round.

Answer:

Financial records are not retained by my Department prior to 2009-10. However, I can provide you with a breakdown of roads maintenance capital funding bids made during monitoring rounds from 2009-10 until 2021-22, and this is detailed in the table below.

Year	Monitoring Round	Bid £m
2009-10	September	36
	December	12
	February	5
2010-11	June	41
	September	34
2011-12	June	53.5
	October	20
	January	15
2012-13	June	40
	October	20.5
	January	18
2013-14	June	61
	October	40
	January	9
2014-15	June	80.1
	October	45
2015-16	November	23
2016-17	June	40
2017-18	December	13
	January	11.5
2018-19	June	25
	October	17
	January	11
2019-20	September	10
2020-21	October	4.5

The capacity of my Department to deliver road schemes is influenced by the capacity within both our design teams and contractors within a given financial year.

In relation to the current year, 2021-22, the capital budget currently being spent by my Department represents the largest ever capital budget.

Following legal challenges to the award of Structural Maintenance contracts and a re-assessment of progress on the development of the interim procurement strategy, the capacity of our internal and external resources and the need to ensure all current capital programmes are delivered by 31 March 2022, no further bids were put forward for structural maintenance this financial year.