The Department has evaluated only one of the 12 funding pots it has made available for local road maintenance over the last decade. The Department has also not evaluated the totality of the funding it has made available to local authorities for road maintenance, to assess whether it has led to an improvement in road conditions, or whether its assumptions about the benefits of local road maintenance have been borne out in practice.59 The Department told us that it was confident from its analysis that its local roads funding was good value for money, with its 2020 estimate suggesting £7 in economic benefits for every £1 spent, and potentially even higher at £9 from its more recent but less robust economic appraisal.60 However, the NAO report also states that this is the Department’s estimate of the benefits the funding could deliver, but it has not conducted any assessment of whether the benefits were actually delivered.61