CIHT welcomes today’s National Audit Office’s (NAO) report ‘Maintaining strategic infrastructure: roads’. The report highlights how long term funding certainty is crucial to how the UK manages its road infrastructure.

Funding pressures on highways authorities have encouraged efficiency and innovation in how budgets for road maintenance are spent, but public value will be lost unless funding becomes more predictable, according to the report.

The report by the NAO also welcomes the six-year funding certainty outlined in today’s Infrastructure Bill provided for capital projects and maintenance, and therefore the potential to achieve better value for money.

Andrew Hugill, Director of Policy and Technical Affairs said:

“We have consistently called for a need for certainty, and continuity of investment over a sustained period if overall improvements to the transport network are to be delivered effectively and efficiently.

Giving certainty to the entire transport sector, including skills, resources and the investment needed for effective delivery will result in benefits to health, environmental, social as well as economic agendas.”
 
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Notes for editors

Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation

CIHT is a membership organisation representing over 12,500 people who work in the highways and transportation sector.

CIHT members plan, design, build, operate and maintain best-in-class transport systems and infrastructure, whilst respecting the imperatives of improving safety, ensuring economic competitiveness and minimising environmental impact.

CIHT supports its member's professional endeavours by:

• offering training, information, professional development and support
• promoting the value added to society by the profession
• being the focused voice to Governments and other decision makers on transportation expertise and knowledge.
 

For more information please contact:

Daniel Isichei, Director of Communications e: daniel.isichei@ciht.org.uk  t: +44(0)20 7336 1567 m: 07912 122573 www.ciht.org.uk