AQW 14924/22-27

Ms Connie Egan
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 12/09/2024
Answered On Date: 08/10/2024
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the allocation of funding spent on weed control in North Down over the last three years.

Answer:

The Department delivers a programme of weed control aimed at ensuring the safety of road users and preventing the deterioration of the road pavement. Expenditure on weed control by constituency area is not held. However, records of expenditure on Grass Cutting, Weed control and Tree Maintenance for Southern Division is maintained and set out in Table 1 below for the past three completed financial years from 2021-22 to 2023-24:

Table 1

Grass Cutting, Weed Control and Tree Maintenance	2021-22 £m	2022-23 £m	2023-24 £m
	1.7	1.4	2.0

Southern Division expenditure covers Ards and North Down, Newry, Mourne and Down and Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon council areas.