To ask the Minister for Infrastructure how many times utility providers have been instructed by his Department to make good the road surface in the Strangford constituency, in each of the last five years.

Where reinstatements by utility providers do not meet the necessary standards, they are notified to the utilities as requiring remedial action during the guarantee period which in most cases is two years. Beyond that period responsibility reverts to my Department when the intervention criteria for repairs reflects the Department’s current Limited Service policy.

My Department does not collate or manage information on a constituency basis, rather information is managed on a Council or DfI Roads Section Office area basis. Therefore, details of the number of notifications to utility companies for sub-standard reinstatements carried out within the Ards and North Down area for each year from 2018 until 2022 to date are shown in the table below:

Should you have any further questions on this matter, please contact DfI Roads Southern Division at: dfiroads.southern@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk.