Breakdown of road maintenance by local authority area: EIR release

Information requested

You asked for

• A breakdown of spend of the £10 million pledged by the Scottish Government for road maintenance. 
• This information broken down by local authority area.

Response

As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations.  We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA. 

This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’.  Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.  We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes.  This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

The total road length within each council area, taken as a percentage of Scotland’s total local authority length was used to determine each councils share of the extra £10 million for additional repairs to road surfaces.

 The breakdown by local authority area is in the table below;

Local Authority	£
Aberdeen City Council	267,000.00
Aberdeenshire Council	820,000.00
Angus Council	279,000.00
Argyll & Bute Council	333,000.00
City of Edinburgh Council	480,000.00
Clackmannanshire Council	82,000.00
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	172,000.00
Dumfries & Galloway Council	542,000.00
Dundee City Council	155,000.00
East Ayrshire Council	218,000.00
East Dunbartonshire Council	157,000.00
East Lothian Council	181,000.00
East Renfrewshire Council	136,000.00
Falkirk Council	244,000.00
Fife Council	582,000.00
Glasgow City Council	563,000.00
Highland Council The	940,000.00
Inverclyde Council	96,000.00
Midlothian Council	149,000.00
Moray Council	231,000.00
North Ayrshire Council	213,000.00
North Lanarkshire Council	438,000.00
Orkney Islands Council	120,000.00
Perth & Kinross Council	391,000.00
Renfrewshire Council	312,000.00
Scottish Borders Council	401,000.00
Shetland Islands Council	134,000.00
South Ayrshire Council	214,000.00
South Lanarkshire Council	509,000.00
Stirling Council	247,000.00
West Dunbartonshire Council	113,000.00
West Lothian Council	280,000.00
	9,999,000.00

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