Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander outlines plans to fix British roads

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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander says the government is gathering record levels of data on potholes.Ministers have pledged to double spending on fixing roads across the UK.

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00:00so interestingly it's a pretty ridiculous situation i inherited this situation when i

00:04walked into the department for transport there isn't data that has been collected

00:12on potholes and there isn't actually even a definition of a pothole so what we are doing

00:18is we are collecting data in a way that hasn't been done before this government is doubling the

00:24amount of money that we are spending on roads maintenance 7.3 but you're not telling us

00:33and so look what the the map that we have produced uh the way in which we worked out how to

00:40categorize different local authority areas was based upon a number of factors the condition of

00:45the road the amount of investment that is being put in and the extent to which the local authority

00:52in question is using best practice and providing good value for money um for the taxpayer

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