The Department has not evaluated its approaches to funding local roads to know whether they are delivering value for money. Despite providing over £1 billion of funding each year to local authorities for the maintenance of local roads, the Department has not evaluated the totality of funding it has made available and what it has achieved from this. It has evaluated one of the 12 funding pots it has used over the last decade. In particular, it has not evaluated its fund which used incentives to improve local authorities’ asset management practices, despite issues identified in the NAO report and its plans to use such an approach going forward. The Department has also not evaluated the effectiveness of funding of local road maintenance through Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs). recommendation The Department should evaluate approaches to funding local roads to determine what has been effective to help inform future approaches. This should include conducting interim evaluations on local authority PFI schemes.