Please provide the following information for each financial year from 2019/20 to 2023/24:
1) The name of contractors/companies you have contracts with to undertake pothole repair work.
Milestone Infrastructure Limited (MIL) since April 2021. Prior to this, Skanska Infrastructure Ltd.
2) The value of the contract between you and each above contractor/company over last three years for pothole repair work, broken down by year.
Devon County Council does not hold expenditure information relating specifically to potholes. Expenditure on potholes is included within the total expenditure on Highway Safety Defect repairs, which is set out below:
| 2021/22 | £6,279,546.11 |
| 2022/23 | £7,276.074.47 |
| 2023/24 | £7,923,113.72 |
3) The number of instances where each contractor has repaired a pothole, or had a subcontractor repair a pothole.
| 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | |
| April | 3489 | 9782 | 3741 | 6505 | 3904 | 2984 | 4631 |
| May | 4329 | 6339 | 3344 | 4764 | 4248 | 3499 | 4183 |
| June | 3293 | 5120 | 3713 | 5179 | 5743 | 2949 | 3739 |
| July | 3148 | 5225 | 2719 | 4040 | 4301 | 2766 | 3470 |
| August | 3352 | 4423 | 2041 | 3071 | 3845 | 2344 | 3781 |
| September | 2831 | 3378 | 2745 | 3297 | 2874 | 2133 | 3650 |
| October | 3750 | 3137 | 3013 | 2465 | 2545 | 1478 | 2808 |
| November | 4316 | 3434 | 3931 | 3349 | 2697 | 2654 | 4875 |
| December | 3766 | 3533 | 3393 | 2465 | 2723 | 2434 | 3550 |
| January | 7408 | 5770 | 6694 | 5181 | 3494 | 7376 | 5561 |
| February | 7687 | 5121 | 5269 | 5619 | 2973 | 4308 | 6888 |
| March | 8523 | 6706 | 7884 | 6190 | 4920 | 4888 | 6706 |
Information is not held on whether our contractor has repaired a pothole using their own workforce or used a subcontractor.
4) The number of instances when you required above referenced contractors to remediate poor pothole repair work carried out by their contractors in the past three years.
The recorded number of orders for remedial work, accepted and completed by the contractor, in each financial year are:
| Year | Audits Completed by DCC | Remedials undertaken at MIL’s cost |
| 2021/22 | Not recorded | 4* |
| 2022/23 | 1098 | 46 |
| 2023/24 | 928 | 35 |
*Specific recording of remedial work started early in 2022.
5) The amount of money you have claimed back from each above contractor/company over the last three years because of pothole remediation/poor quality repair work, broken down by year.
Nil. Under our contract, the contractor must undertake remedial work at their own cost, or extend the warranty period.
6) The number of instances where above referenced contractors/companies have had to repair their own pothole repair work (or pothole repair work undertaken by another contractor/company) within six months of the date of carrying out the original pothole repair work, for the past three years, broken down by year.
The recorded numbers of orders for remedial work within 6 months of completion of the original order are:
| 2021/22 | No records held* |
| 2022/23 | 44 |
| 2023/24 | 23 |
*Specific recording of remedial work started early in 2022.