Mandarins warn over road cuts

摘要

Department for Transport civil servants have warned MPs that standards would be affected by road maintenance spending cuts. The Public Accounts Committee heard that reducing costs in the DfT would mean slower response times to highways problems. A report by spending watchdogs at the National Audit Office said that a reduction in routine maintenance spending would equate to £310m to 2014/2015 but there would be a corresponding increase of £150m in capital spending to move to an annual cycle of maintenance with managed degradation and much slower response times.