AQW 35368/22-27
Mr Andrew McMurray
Alliance Party
South Down
Tabled Date: 12/11/2025
Answered On Date: 25/11/2025
Priority Written: No
Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the annual costs her Department has incurred for contracting in road gully maintenance machines, over each of the last ten years.
Answer:
My Department does not hold information separately for road gully maintenance. However the table below sets out the annual cost of external contractors in providing delivery of services relating to gully emptying, sweeping and cleaning of roads, since the inception of the Department in 2016-17: Financial Year | £m | 2016-17 | 1.2 | 2017-18 | 0.9 | 2018-19 | 1.0 | 2019-20 | 1.2 | 2020-21 | 1.9 | 2021-22 | 1.9 | 2022-23 | 3.1 | 2023-24 | 3.4 | 2024-25 | 5.0 |
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