Exclusive: End of an era as DfT drops self-assessment process09/10/2023 The Department for Transport has ended the highways self-assessment process, removing the incentive element of local maintenance capital funding in its current form, Highways understands. |
Exclusive: Highways self-assessment process set for ministerial review06/02/2023 The Department for Transport has confirmed that 'a submission will be going to ministers' on the future of the highways Incentive Fund self-assessment process. |
Exclusive: DfT trials non-scoring sustainability questions in self-assessment11/02/2021 The 'standard' Highways Maintenance Incentive Fund self-assessment questionnaire will shortly be sent out to English local highways authorities outside of London for 2021-2022, the Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed. |
The final count up: 2020-2021 self-assessment results revealed05/02/2021 The final year of self-assessment results are in: which were the only English highway authorities to fail to make it into the top Band? |
Q and A with Mathew Lugg: Self-assessment, self-assessed13/02/2020 A top sliced cash pot is not really supposed to change a sector. It’s a politician’s gift, a press release, a civil servant’s pet project. In highways it often just shores up finance that had bled off into other services anyway. The highways self-assessment process was different. |
£151m up for grabs in latest DfT self-assessment process12/02/2020 The Department for Transport has released the self-assessment questionnaire that will determine the 2020/2021 Incentive Fund allocations for highway authorities in England, excluding London, with £151m up for grabs. |
Highways self-assessment process set to change17/09/2018 The head of highways maintenance at the Department for Transport has revealed that the 2019-2020 Incentive Fund’s self-assessment process could be changed to include questions on data and the environment. |
DfT self-assessment process is key focus for local highways event30/08/2018 The North West-based Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) is hosting a dinner and workshop on 12 and 13 September at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. |
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