AQW 39935/22-27

Mr Andrew McMurray
Alliance Party
South Down

Tabled Date: 05/02/2026
Answered On Date: 25/02/2026
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the (i) percentage spend; and (ii) absolute spend, on road defect repairs carried out by her Department versus external contractors, in 2025.

Answer:

My Department’s spend in delivering road structural maintenance, which it carried out, was £20.4m in 2024-25. This accounted for 15% of the total structural maintenance spend of £135.8m in 2024-25, with the remaining delivery through external contractors.

Structural Maintenance is the collective term for expenditure on resurfacing, surface dressing, patching on both carriageway and footways, structural drainage and structural stability of the road network.