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Ministers have confirmed fresh details around the £8.3bn funding 'uplift' for councils, said to be funded from cuts to HS2, including the new duties for councils attached to the cash. English local highway authorities will receive an extra £150m this financial year, followed by a further £150m for 2024-25, with the rest of the funding allocated through to 2034. Additional funding up to 2025 has been allocated based on the highways maintenance block formula but the year-by-year profile beyond 2024-25 has not yet been finalised. The Department for Transport (DfT) said the funding is expected to increase over time, but added that it cannot guarantee the cash will be 'truly additional', due to Treasury constraints, raising concerns that inflation may not be into account. It said the cash will represent an increase 'of around two-thirds in its support for local roads' but this appears to be based on current spending levels of roughly £1bn a year - if that was frozen over the next 11 years. |