AQW 48987/22-27

Mr Peter McReynolds
Alliance Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 18/06/2026
Answered On Date: 03/07/2026
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the amount her Department has spent repairing damaged footpaths and pavements, during the last five years, broken down by the cause of the damage.

Answer:

My Department does not hold information on the specific cause of damage to footpaths and pavements, however the table below details expenditure outturns for small scale repairs on footpaths over the last five financial years.

Footway Patching	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26 *
	£m
	1.9	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.4

*2025-26 outturn is subject to Audit review

The figures in the above table do not include the reconstruction or resurfacing of footpaths.