Highways maintenance and ITB funding formula allocations, 2022 to 2025 (3 years)
Updated 23 January 2025
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Funding allocations summary
The Spending Review, published in October 2021, committed over 拢2.7 billion of local highways maintenance funding between tax years 2022 and 2025 to local authorities outside of London and the 8 largest city regions.
This includes the remainder of the pothole funding package announced at Budget 2020 to help resurface the highway, including the fixing of potholes.
The Highways Maintenance Block (HMB) needs element,听HMB听incentive element and the Integrated Transport Block (ITB) allocations are calculated based on existing sector-agreed formulae.
Individual allocations have been rolled over from 2021 to 2022 to ensure funding consistency. The potholes funding package is also allocated using the same formula as听the HMB听formula. Figures are then rounded to the nearest 拢1,000.
It is important to understand that figures at this stage are subject to results from the existing highways maintenance incentive element self-assessment carried out by local highways authorities on an annual basis. This is in addition to wider incentivisation measures to be consulted on with local highways authorities in due course.
Highways maintenance and investment policy
The Department for Transport (DfT) is committed to allocating this funding to local highways authorities so they can most effectively spend this funding on maintaining and improving their respective network, based upon their local knowledge, circumstances and priorities.
DfT strongly advocates a risk-based whole lifecycle asset management approach to local authority highways maintenance programmes. This considers all parts of the highway network, such as bridges, cycleways and lighting columns 鈥� and not just the fixing of potholes.
It is up to the respective highway authority how best to spend this funding to fulfil their statutory duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980.
Further information and best practice on the is available from the UK Road Liaison Group.
City region sustainable transport settlements
Seven mayoral combined authorities (MCAs), will receive City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) for 5 years from the 2022 to 2023 tax year.
The CRSTS consolidate funds equivalent to HMB (element and incentive), potholes funding and ITB, so are not included in the tables.
The North East Combined Authority (NECA) will be eligible for the CRSTS once appropriate governance is in place. For 2022 to 2023, NECA has been awarded a one-year settlement which will be considered when it becomes eligible for the CRSTS.
As in 2021 to 2022, funding equivalent to its ITB is allocated to the NECA, while funding equivalent to its HMB and potholes fund is allocated to the 7 constituent local authorities. Affected local authorities are marked with an asterisk 鈥�*鈥�.
Regions and authorities that do not receive these funding streams
London Boroughs and Transport for London (TfL) do not receive these funding streams for the maintenance of their local highways.
The Isles of Scilly also do not receive annual funding.
The Isle of Wight receives a private finance initiative (PFI) and so does not receive highways maintenance or pothole funding.
Birmingham and Sheffield also receive a PFI, which means the CRSTS settlements for West Midlands Combined Authority and South Yorkshire Combined Authority do not reflect funding for Birmingham and Sheffield highways maintenance.
Cornwall Unitary Authority (UA) is within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities鈥� Business Rates Retention pilot (as are the Greater Manchester and West of England combined authorities). It instead retains a proportion equal to what it would normally receive, so its funding for听HMB听补苍诲听ITB听is indicative only.
Total funding amounts per year
| Potholes funding 2022 to 2025 (拢) | HMB needs element 2022 to 2025 (拢) | HMB incentive element 2022 to 2025 (拢) | ITB 2022 to 2025 (拢) | Total (拢) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England (overall) | 500,000,000 | 500,000,000 | 125,000,000 | 260,000,000 | 1,385,000,000 |
| England (outside of CRSTS) | 407,297,000 | 407,297,000 | 101,823,000 | 170,035,000 | 1,086,452,000 |
| CRSTS (equivalent levels)* | 92,703,000 | 92,703,000 | 23,177,000 | 89,965,000 | 298,548,000 |
Mayoral combined authority amounts per year
| Combined authority | Pothole funding 2022 to 2025 (拢) funding per year | HMB needs element 2022 to 2025 (拢) | HMB incentive element 2022 to 2025 (拢) | ITB 2022 to 2025 (拢) | Total (拢) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CA | 10,250,000 | 10,250,000 | 2,562,000 | 4,633,000 | 27,695,000 |
| Greater Manchester CA | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Liverpool City Region CA | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| North East CA* | Funding allocated to local authority* | Funding allocated to local authority* | Funding allocated to local authority* | 14,057,000* | 14,057,000* |
| Sheffield City Region CA | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Tees Valley CA | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| West Midlands ITA | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| West of England CA | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| West Yorkshire CA | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
Local highway authority amounts per year
| Local authority | Pothole funding 2022 to 2025 (拢) | HMB needs element 2022 to 2025 (拢) | HMB incentive element 2022 to 2025 (拢) | ITB 2022 to 2025 (拢) | Total (拢) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnsley | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Bath and North East Somerset UA | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Bedford UA | 1,657,000 | 1,657,000 | 414,000 | 1,162,000 | 4,890,000 |
| Birmingham | Highways maintenance PFI | Highways maintenance PFI | Highways maintenance PFI | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Blackburn with Darwen UA | 1,070,000 | 1,070,000 | 268,000 | 1,435,000 | 3,844,000 |
| Blackpool UA | 667,000 | 667,000 | 167,000 | 1,733,000 | 听3,233,000 |
| Bolton | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and 听 Poole UA | 2,127,000 | 听2,127,000听 | 听532,000 | 3,102,000 | 7,888,000 |
| Bracknell Forest UA | 944,000 | 听944,000 | 听236,000 | 听726,000 | 听2,850,000 |
| Bradford | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Brighton and Hove UA | 1,455,000 | 1,455,000 | 听364,000 | 3,083,000 | 6,358,000 |
| Bristol, City of UA | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS |
| Buckinghamshire | 5,827,000 | 5,827,000 | 1,457,000 | 听2,275,000 | 听15,385,000 |
| Bury | CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Calderdale | CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Cambridgeshire | Funding allocated to combined authority | Funding allocated to combined authority | Funding allocated to combined authority | Funding allocated to combined authority | Funding allocated to combined authority |
| Central Bedfordshire UA | 听 听 2,473,000 听 | 听2,473,000 | 听618,000 | 听1,376,000 | 6,941,000 |
| Cheshire East UA | 听5,799,000 | 5,799,000 | 听1,450,000 | 听2,003,000 | 听15,051,000 |
| Cheshire West and Chester UA听 | 听4,413,000 | 听4,413,000听 | 听1,103,000听 | 听1,970,000 | 11,898,000 |
| Cornwall UA | 12,589,000 | 听12,589,000 | 听3,147,000 | 4,137,000 | 听32,461,000 |
| County Durham UA*听 | 听6,596,000 | 6,596,000 | 听1,649,000听 | 听Funding allocated to combined authority听 | 听14,841,000 |
| Coventry | CRSTS | 听CRSTS | CRSTS | 听CRSTS 听 听 | 听 听 CRSTS 听 听 听 |
| Cumbria | 15,028,000 | 15,028,000 | 3,757,000 | 2,566,000 | 36,379,000 |
| Darlington UA听 | 听CRSTS听 | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Derby UA | 听1,229,000 | 1,229,000 | 听307,000 | 听1,825,000 | 4,589,000 |
| Derbyshire | 听10,533,000听 | 听10,533,000 | 听2,633,000听 | 听3,672,000听 | 听27,372,000听 |
| Devon | 23,477,000 | 23,477,000 | 5,869,000 | 3,628,000 | 56,453,000 |
| Doncaster | CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Dorset | 听7,285,000 | 听7,285,000听 | 听1,821,000 | 听1,986,000 | 听18,378,000 |
| Dudley | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| East Riding of Yorkshire UA | 听6,130,000 | 听6,130,000 | 听1,533,000 | 听1,653,000听 | 听15,446,000 |
| East Sussex | 听5,900,000听 | 听5,900,000听 | 听1,475,000 | 听2,941,000 | 听16,215,000 |
| Essex | 听13,638,000 | 听13,638,000 | 听3,409,000听 | 听6,324,000 | 听37,008,000 |
| Gateshead* | 听1,520,000听 | 1,520,000听 | 听380,000 | 听Funding allocated to combined authority | 3,420,000听 |
| Gloucestershire | 听9,896,000 | 9,896,000 | 听2,474,000 | 听2,884,000 | 听25,151,000 |
| Halton UA | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Hampshire | 听14,886,000 | 听14,886,000 | 听3,721,000听 | 听5,338,000 | 听38,830,000 |
| Hartlepool UA | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS |
| Herefordshire, County of UA | 听6,395,000 | 听6,395,000 | 听1,599,000 | 听1,077,000听 | 听15,465,000 |
| Hertfordshire | 9,880,000 | 9,880,000 | 听2,470,000 | 听4,604,000 | 听26,835,000 |
| Isle of Wight UA | 听Highways maintenance PFI | 听Highways maintenance PFI | Highways maintenance PFI | 听1,429,000 | 听1,429,000 |
| Isles of Scilly UA* | 0 | 0听 | 0 | 听0 | 听0 |
| Kent | 听15,137,000 | 听15,137,000 | 3,784,000 | 听6,914,000 | 听40,972,000 |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of UA | 听1,249,000 | 听1,249,000 | 312,000 | 听2,247,000 | 听5,058,000 |
| Kirklees | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Knowsley | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS |
| Lancashire | 听12,805,000 | 12,805,000 | 听3,201,000 | 听6,101,000 | 34,912,000 |
| Leeds | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS |
| Leicester UA | 听1,450,000 | 听1,450,000听 | 听362,000 | 听2,576,000 | 听5,838,000 |
| Leicestershire | 听7,891,000听 | 听7,891,000 | 听1,973,000 | 听2,750,000 | 听20,505,000 |
| Lincolnshire | 听17,210,000 | 听17,210,000 | 听4,303,000 | 听3,337,000 | 听42,060,000 |
| Liverpool | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 |
| Luton UA | 听759,000 | 听759,000 | 190,000 | 听1,469,000 | 听3,177,000听 |
| Manchester | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS |
| Medway UA | 1,412,000听 | 听1,412,000听 | 听353,000听 | 听1,602,000听 | 听4,779,000听 |
| Middlesbrough UA | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 |
| Milton Keynes UA | 听2,843,000 | 听2,843,000 | 听711,000听 | 听1,539,000 | 听7,935,000 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne* | 听1,506,000听 | 听1,506,000听 | 听377,000 | 听Funding allocated to combined authority | 3,389,000听 |
| Norfolk听 | 15,892,000 | 听15,892,000 | 听3,973,000听 | 听4,173,000 | 听39,930,000 |
| North East Lincolnshire UA | 听1,107,000 | 听1,107,000 | 听277,000 | 听1,490,000听 | 听3,982,000听 |
| North Lincolnshire UA | 听2,553,000 | 听2,553,000听 | 听638,000听 | 听1,168,000 | 听6,913,000 |
| North Northamptonshire | 听3,735,000 | 3,735,000 | 934,000 | 听1,551,000 | 听9,955,000听 |
| North Somerset UA | 听2,227,000听 | 听2,227,000听 | 听557,000 | 980,000 | 听5,990,000 |
| North Tyneside*听 | 听1,253,000 | 听1,253,000听 | 听313,000 | 听Funding allocated to combined authority听 | 2,819,000听 |
| North Yorkshire | 听16,454,000 | 听16,454,000 | 听4,113,000 | 听3,046,000 | 听40,068,000 |
| Northumberland UA* | 9,680,000 | 9,680,000听 | 听2,420,000 | 听Funding allocated to combined authority | 听21,780,000 |
| Nottingham UA | 听1,229,000 | 听1,229,000 | 听307,000 | 听3,416,000 | 听6,182,000 |
| Nottinghamshire听 | 听8,280,000听 | 听8,280,000 | 听2,070,000 | 听3,947,000 | 听22,577,000 |
| Oldham | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | CRSTS听 |
| Oxfordshire | 听9,265,000听 | 听9,265,000 | 2,316,000听 | 听3,717,000 | 听24,562,000 |
| Peterborough UA听 | Funding allocated to combined authority | Funding allocated to combined authority | 听Funding allocated to combined authority听 | 听Funding allocated to combined authority | 听Funding allocated to combined authority |
| Plymouth UA听 | 听1,290,000 | 听1,290,000 | 听323,000 | 听1,959,000听 | 听4,862,000听 |
| Portsmouth UA | 听794,000听 | 听794,000听 | 听198,000听 | 听1,865,000 | 听3,651,000听 |
| Reading UA | 听817,000 | 听817,000 | 听204,000 | 听1,592,000 | 听3,431,000 |
| Redcar and Cleveland UA | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Rochdale | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Rotherham | CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS |
| Rutland UA | 听1,058,000 | 听1,058,000 | 听265,000 | 听462,000 | 听2,843,000 |
| Salford | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Sandwell听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Sefton | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 |
| Sheffield听 | Highways maintenance PFI | 听Highways maintenance PFI | 听Highways maintenance PFI | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 |
| Shropshire UA | 听9,155,000听 | 听9,155,000 | 2,289,000听 | 听1,638,000听听 | 听22,237,000 |
| Slough UA听 | 502,000听 | 听502,000听 | 听125,000听 | 听1,360,000 | 听2,488,000 |
| Solihull听 | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 |
| Somerset | 听12,494,000 | 听12,494,000 | 听3,123,000听 | 听2,227,000 | 听30,337,000 |
| South Gloucestershire UA | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS |
| South Tyneside*听 | 听859,000听 | 听859,000 | 215,000 | Funding allocated to combined authority | 听1,933,000 |
| Southampton UA | 听946,000 | 听946,000 | 听236,000听 | 听2,140,000 | 听4,268,000听 |
| Southend-on-Sea UA | 听773,000听 | 773,000听 | 听193,000 | 听1,412,000听 | 听3,151,000 |
| St. Helens | CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS听 听 |
| Staffordshire听 | 听11,141,000 | 听11,141,000 | 听2,785,000听 | 听3,449,000听 | 听28,516,000 |
| Stockport | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Stockton-on-Tees UA | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Stoke-on-Trent UA | 1,321,000 | 听1,321,000 | 听330,000 | 听1,679,000 | 听4,651,000 |
| Suffolk | 12,106,000 | 12,106,000 | 3,026,000 | 3,271,000 | 30,509,000 |
| Sunderland* | 1,835,000 | 听1,835,000 | 听459,000 | Funding allocated to combined authority | 4,128,000 |
| Surrey | 9,275,000 | 9,275,000 | 2,319,000 | 4,821,000 | 25,691,000 |
| Swindon UA | 听1,554,000 | 1,554,000 | 388,000 | 1,389,000 | 4,885,000 |
| Tameside | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS | CRSTS |
| Telford and Wrekin UA听 | 1,916,000 | 听 1,916,000听 | 479,000 | 946,000 | 5,257,000 听 |
| Thurrock UA | 1,106,000 | 1,106,000听 | 277,000 | 979,000听 | 听 3,468,000听 |
| Torbay UA | 809,000 | 809,000 | 202,000 | 1,071,000 | 2,892,000 |
| Trafford | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Wakefield | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 |
| Walsall | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Warrington UA | 听1,773,000 | 听1,773,000 | 听443,000 | 听1,505,000 | 听5,495,000 |
| Warwickshire | 听7,187,000 | 听7,187,000 | 听1,797,000听 | 2,657,000 | 听18,828,000 |
| West Berkshire UA | 听2,394,000听 | 听2,394,000 | 听599,000 | 听917,000 | 听6,304,000听 |
| West Northamptonshire听 | 听4,742,000 | 听4,742,000 | 1,185,000 | 听1,550,000 | 听12,219,000 |
| West Sussex | 听7,616,000 | 听7,616,000 | 1,904,000听 | 听3,763,000听 | 听20,898,000 |
| Wigan | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 |
| Wiltshire UA | 9,212,000 | 9,212,000听 | 听2,303,000听 | 听2,198,000听 | 听22,924,000 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead UA | 1,209,000听 | 听1,209,000 | 302,000 | 听858,000 | 听3,577,000 |
| Wirral | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS听 | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS听 |
| Wokingham UA | 听1,473,000 | 听1,473,000听 | 听368,000 | 听740,000 | 听4,055,000 |
| Wolverhampton | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS | 听CRSTS |
| Worcestershire | 听8,328,000 | 听8,328,000 | 2,082,000 | 2,423,000 | 听21,161,000 |
| York UA | 1,260,000 | 1,260,000听 | 315,000 | 1,582,000 | 4,417,000听 |
Calculation of the highways maintenance block and pothole funding
This information outlines how DfT calculated highways maintenance block funding 鈥榥eeds鈥� allocations for tax years 2022 to 2025. It is important to understand that these figures are subject to the ongoing transport incentivisation initiative and forthcoming consultation with local authorities.
The allocations for each element
As a result of the consultation on highways maintenance funding, DfT has allocated a proportion of the total funding to 3 elements in the following proportions, derived from the whole of government accounts, of 82.42% funding towards roads.
The funding is split evenly between:
- A roads: 27.47%
- B and C roads: 27.47%
- U roads: 27.47%
Funding for other areas include:
- bridges: 15.38%
- lighting columns: 2.20%
- cycleways and footways: 0%
How each element has been calculated
The allocations for an authority for the roads, bridges and lighting elements are all calculated in broadly the same way. This is the 鈥榣ocal authority total for each element divided by England total for each element multiplied by total allocation in pounds (拢) for each element鈥�.
The allocations for each of the elements are then added together to get the total allocation for each authority and rounded to the nearest 拢1,000.
Data sources: roads
The road lengths are sourced from听DfT鈥檚 road lengths dataset for 2012 in kilometres and calculated as follows:
- A road totals have been calculated as 鈥榯he principal motorway multiplied by 3 plus principal rural 鈥楢鈥� plus principal urban 鈥楢鈥� plus dual principal rural 鈥楢鈥� plus dual principal urban 鈥楢鈥欌��
- B and C road totals are calculated as 鈥榬ural B plus urban B plus rural C plus urban C鈥�
- U road totals were calculated as 鈥榬ural U plus urban U鈥�
Data sources: bridges
These figures were sourced from local authorities in a data collection exercise and relate to the number of publicly maintainable highways bridges that highway authorities owned as of 1 April 2014. This figure should include all structures over 1.5 metres in span, whether carrying carriageway or footway, but not including public rights of way, or structures belonging to other owners, such as Network Rail.
Data sources: lights
These figures were sourced from local authorities in a data collection exercise and relate to the total number of street lighting columns owned by authorities as of 1 April 2014.
Private finance initiatives (PFIs)
To calculate England鈥檚 totals for:
- all 3 elements, 3 authorities with PFIs that receive all their funding through听PFI听credits have been excluded 鈥� these are Birmingham, Sheffield and the Isle of Wight
- the lighting element, in addition to the 3 authorities mentioned, all local authorities with a street lighting听PFI听have also been excluded
London Boroughs and the Isles of Scilly were not eligible for funding and have been excluded.