The Government has now announced how much each council area will receive for highways capital maintenance for 2025/26.

For the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough area it’s £10 million, with a quarter of that amount to be held back until the respective councils have proved they will meet certain—still to be announced—criteria.

£10 million sounds a lot, but

• The Government may hold back twenty-five per cent of it
• It includes Peterborough as well as Cambridgeshire
• In Cambridgeshire alone the backlog of highways maintenance is around £600 million

Better than nothing, then, but a long way from what we need.