What funding it will allocate to bring non-trunk roads up to acceptable standards and when it will allocate such funding.

The Scottish Executivesupports local authorities’ net revenue expenditure on roads maintenancethrough the core local government finance settlement. Spending Review 2004added a further £60 million in both 2006-07 and 2007-08 to the Roads and TransportGrant Aided Expenditure (GAE) allocations, the majority of which was added tothe roads maintenance GAEs. Total GAE for roads maintenance will amount to £320million by 2007-08 and this represents an increase of 23% on the 2004-05 allocationto local authorities. Each council is responsible for the maintenance andimprovement of local roads in its area and it is entirely a matter for councilsto decide what priority is given to local roads and to allocate the resourcesavailable to them accordingly.
We will consider COSLA’ssubmission in respect of the 2007 Spending Review including any points on localroads maintenance at the appropriate time.