AQW 14924/22-27 Written question to the Minister for Infrastructure
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the allocation of funding spent on weed control in North Down over the last three years.
Asked by Connie Egan MLA on 12 September 2024
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 12 September 2024
- Answer due by
- 27 September 2024
- Answered
- 8 October 202426 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Priority question
- No
Answer
The Department delivers a programme of weed control aimed at ensuring the safety of road users and preventing the deterioration of the road pavement. Expenditure on weed control by constituency area is not held. However, records of expenditure on Grass Cutting, Weed control and Tree Maintenance for Southern Division is maintained and set out in Table 1 below for the past three completed financial years from 2021-22 to 2023-24:
Table 1
| Grass Cutting, Weed Control and Tree Maintenance | 2021-22 £m | 2022-23 £m | 2023-24 £m |
| 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.0 |
Southern Division expenditure covers Ards and North Down, Newry, Mourne and Down and Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon council areas.