In my answer of 30 March 2006, Hansard, column 1125W to a written parliamentary question (UIN 63004) from Andrew Rosindell, I stated that the information requested was available from Essex county council and the London borough of Havering, and made no reference to Highways Agency roads. Contrary to my original answer, Essex county council is not in fact a local highway authority for the area in question. The two local highway authorities are Transport for London and the London borough of Havering.

The Highways Agency is not responsible for any roads in the town of Romford; however, there is a 12.4 km section of the M25 motorway in the London borough of Havering, which is their responsibility. Whilst the Agency does not hold financial records based on local authority boundaries, it is possible to estimate the proportion of spend for this section of the motorway from the total maintenance budget for the M25, in the last five financial years:

2001: £2.04m

2002: £2.17m

2003: £2.30m

2004: £2.45m

2005: £2.61m

There is no information available from which to estimate expenditure for the financial years before 2001.