I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information relating to highway drainage maintenance.

1. Please can you provide the number of highway drainage assets under your responsibility? If available, can you split the information by type (e.g. gullies, chambers, ditches etc.)?
• Gullies – about 30,000
• Manholes – about 5,000
a) Could you also provide information about the number of gullies cleaned per year for the last 3 available years?
All gullies are cleaned at least once every year and about 10,000 are cleaned twice a year. There is also ad-hoc cleaning as reported by members of the public.
b) If available, please could you provide the number of blocked drainage assets for the last 3 years?
995

2. Please can you provide your highway drainage budget for the last 3 years
Revenue budget (direct maintenance costs):
FY2019/2020: 514,000
FY2020/2021: 544,000
FY2021/2022: 766,000
Capital Budget
FY2019/2020: £200,000
FY2020/2021: £200,000 Plus £115,000 (FDGiA added at October Executive)
FY2021/2022: £200,000
a) Does this budget only cover gully cleaning, or does it also include other services such as relining, emergency jetting, CCTV surveys?
The revenue budget covers gulley/manhole cleaning as well as any ad-hoc drainage maintenance works
The capital budget covers major drainage projects and CCTV works.
b) If not, please include budgets and actual expenditure for these additional services over the last 3 years
As explained in 2a above.

3. Can you please provide your actual expenditure on drainage over the last 3 years, if available
Actual Revenue expenditure (direct maintenance costs):
FY2019/2020: 600,000
FY2020/2021: 630,000
FY2021/2022: 546,000
Actual Capital Expenditure
FY2019/2020: £198,584
FY2020/2021: £224,622
FY2021/2022: £127,837

4. Are highway drainage services provided in-house by the council? If so, how many employees do you use for this?
a) If outsourced, are they outsourced directly to a drainage contractor or are they managed as part of a wider highway maintenance contract?
Managed as part of a highway maintenance contract with Volker Highways.

5. In the case of a highway maintenance contract, please could you provide the following information:
a) Number and description of lots
Not sure what this question requires but drainage is covered under series 500 and 7100
b) The current provider(s)
Volker Highways
c) The start date and duration
April 2019
d) Current contract value total
£68m
e) Previous contract value
Not Sure

6. If available, would you be able to provide number of flooding incidents on highways in your area historically and any classification on severity
Between April 2021 and October 2022, 178 (51 high risk and 127 medium risk).
If contract information is available online, please would you be able to attach a copy / link to the information.
https://procontract.due-north.com/ContractsRegister/ViewContractDetails?contractId=4ab3a2c7-0847-e911-80f3-005056b64545&p=679bb2ba-7898-4a4c-b4e3-c8eb6a07a3dc