{"id":560,"date":"2023-03-30T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/?p=560"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:37:48","slug":"meeting-6-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Meeting, 6 December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"560\" class=\"elementor elementor-560\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2bcec2f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2bcec2f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4967296\" data-id=\"4967296\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28b75b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"28b75b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>All Party Parliamentary Group on Better Roads<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Meeting<\/strong><\/p><p>6 December 2022<\/p><p>Dining Room C, Parliament<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Parliamentarian Attendees:<\/strong><\/p><p>Sir Christopher Chope MP (Chair)<br \/>Sir Bill Wiggin MP<br \/>Sir Greg Knight MP<\/p><p><strong>Non-Parliamentarians in attendance<\/strong><\/p><p>Rick Green, Asphalt Industry Alliance<br \/>Malcolm Simms, Asphalt Industry Alliance<br \/>Katharine Kelly, Institute of Highway Engineers<br \/>Martin Polland, Institute of Highway Engineers<br \/>Samantha Stagg, JRPR on behalf of Asphalt Industry Alliance<br \/>Robert McIlveen, Mineral Products Association<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Discussion<\/strong><\/p><p>Rick Green led a discussion on the Pothole Action Fund, following up on the discussion at the Inaugural meeting of the group. A summary paper of his comments is appended.<\/p><p>Looking over the various data sources, the measures of success available tended to show that for the years of the PAF, the conditions on the road network improved somewhat, with an increase in the proportion that were in good condition (from 48% to 55%).<\/p><p>The discussion that followed focused on the importance of the ringfence to securing this outcome and how to pursue restoring a ringfenced fund for local highways authorities.<\/p><p>There was also a discussion of Local Authority performance and funding, referring to data available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/highways-maintenance-funding-allocations\/highways-maintenance-funding-formula-allocations-2021-to-2022\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/highways-maintenance-funding-allocations\/highways-maintenance-funding-formula-allocations-2021-to-2022<\/a>.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Actions:<\/p><ul><li>APPG Secretariat to turn Rick\u2019s presentation into a discussion paper to be published by the APPG in 2023<\/li><li>APPG secretariat to provide WPQs for members to support the case for investment<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Party Parliamentary Group on Better Roads Meeting 6 December 2022 Dining Room C, Parliament \u00a0 Parliamentarian Attendees: Sir Christopher Chope MP (Chair)Sir Bill Wiggin MPSir Greg Knight MP Non-Parliamentarians in attendance Rick Green, Asphalt Industry AllianceMalcolm Simms, Asphalt Industry AllianceKatharine Kelly, Institute of Highway EngineersMartin Polland, Institute of Highway EngineersSamantha Stagg, JRPR on behalf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appg-betterroads.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}