1. Please can you provide the number of highway drainage assets under your responsibility? If available, can you split the information by type (e.g. gullies, chambers, ditches etc.)?
| Gullies | Catchpits | Channels | Ditches | Manholes | Easements | Grips | Buddlehole |
| 20,8631 | 2,294 | 138,438 | 22,487 | 81,988 | 38,432 | 19,765 | 2,637 |
a. Could you also provide information about the number of gullies cleaned per year for the last 3 available years?
b. If available, please could you provide the number of blocked drainage assets for the last 3 years?
| Year | Number of Gullies Cleaned | Number of Gullies reported as not operational on leaving |
| 2021/22 | 138,598 | 10,681 |
| 2020/21 | 138,398 | 13,128 |
| 2019/20 | 132,789 | 8,671 |
2. Please can you provide your highway drainage budget for the last 3 years.
The highway drainage budget has two budget streams: the capital budget and the revenue budget.
| Revenue Budget | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
| Drainage | £662,111 | £825,000 | £1,300,000 |
| Cleaning | £1,462,945 | £2,531,000 | £2,000,000 |
| Gullies | £1,313,690 | £2,000,000 | £2,000,000 |
| Total | £3,438,746 | £5,366,000 | £5,300,000 |
| Capital Budget | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
| Total | £1,966,000 | £1,367,000 | £1,500,000 |
a. Does this budget only cover gully cleaning, or does it also include other services such as relining, emergency jetting, CCTV surveys?
Yes, the budget covers other services including those named in the question.
b. If not, please include budgets and actual expenditure for these additional services over the last 3 years.
Not applicable.
3. Can you please provide your actual expenditure on drainage over the last 3 years, if available.
| Revenue Expenditure | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
| Drainage | £515,079 | £931,921 | £1,251,035 |
| Cleaning | £1,005,487 | £2,136,837 | £2,036,041 |
| Gullies | £1,349,049 | £2,014,837 | £2,117,654 |
| Total | £2,869,614 | £5,083,492 | £5,404,731 |
| Capital Expenditure | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
| Total | £1,338,000 | £1,605,000 | £2,144,000 |
| Additional expenditure in locality areas |
4. Are highway drainage services provided in-house by the council?]
No.
If so, how many employees do you use for this?
Not applicable.
a. If outsourced, are they outsourced directly to a drainage contractor or are they managed as part of a wider highway maintenance contract?
Yes outsourced as part of our Highways Term Maintenance Contract.
5. In the case of a highway maintenance contract, please could you provide the following information:
a. Number and description of lots
Not applicable.
b. The current provider(s)
Milestone Infrastructure
c. The start date and duration
April 2017 for 10 years.
d. Current contract value total
£650M.
e. Previous contract value
Devon County Council does not hold the previous contract value as it evolved from an in-house team which was privatised approximately many years ago.
6. If available, would you be able to provide number of flooding incidents on highways in your area historically and any classification on severity.
The number of highway defects recorded with a detail of “Flooding”:
Financial Year Number of Defects
2021/2022 701
2020/2021 1113
2019/2020 1547
If contract information is available online, please would you be able to attach a copy / link to the information.
The information can be found on this Devon County Council webpage by selecting ‘Devon County Council’ from the Organisations dropdown menu, and then searching for ‘Highways’.