FOI Request - Road Surface Maintenance Expenditure vs Winter Maintenance

Request 101003974789

Please provide the following information for each of the financial
years 2023/24 and 2024/25:

1. Total expenditure on road surface repair and resurfacing

2. Total expenditure on winter maintenance (gritting and salting)

3. Any internal assessments, reports, or correspondence in which the
relative priority of winter maintenance versus road surface
maintenance has been considered or debated

4. The current backlog of road surface repairs, expressed either in
monetary terms or by number of identified defects, if such a figure is
maintained by the council

Response 05-05-2026

1. & 2. Please find the information requested here.

3. Not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

4. The current backlog, as at 24/04/2026, of Carriageway Patching instructions is £181,308 (576 no Instructions). Please note, one instruction can contain more than one defect.