AQW 35368/22-27 Written question to the Minister for Infrastructure
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the annual costs her Department has incurred for contracting in road gully maintenance machines, over each of the last ten years.
Asked by Andrew McMurray MLA on 12 November 2025
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 12 November 2025
- Answer due by
- 27 November 2025
- Answered
- 25 November 202513 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My Department does not hold information separately for road gully maintenance. However the table below sets out the annual cost of external contractors in providing delivery of services relating to gully emptying, sweeping and cleaning of roads, since the inception of the Department in 2016-17:
| Financial Year | £m |
| 2016-17 | 1.2 |
| 2017-18 | 0.9 |
| 2018-19 | 1.0 |
| 2019-20 | 1.2 |
| 2020-21 | 1.9 |
| 2021-22 | 1.9 |
| 2022-23 | 3.1 |
| 2023-24 | 3.4 |
| 2024-25 | 5.0 |