Chancellor's £500m pledge for potholes is slammed as a 'drop in the ocean' compared to £16bn needed

Rachel Reeves said the fresh investment will help to fill one million potholes The Chancellor announced £500million of additional funding to help fix Britain's crumbling roads in yesterday's Budget, but experts have scorned the amount as a 'drop in the ocean'. The Chancellor has announced £500m of funding to help fix Britain's crumbling roads, but experts have scorned the amount as a 'drop in the ocean' Ms Reeves pledged an additional £500million to support local road repairs, marking a 50 per cent increase on the previous administration’s commitment and bringing the total funding for England’s road repairs to £1.6billion. While the Government has said this 'will go further than its commitment to fix an additional one million potholes across England each year', many industry players have criticised the pledge as the Government 'failing to get serious' about the state of England's roads. Paul Barker, editor of Auto Express added that £500m won't 'make much of a dent in the state of the UK's roads' A drop in the ocean Road safety organisations said the additional funding is 'welcome' but argued it doesn't even scratch the surface in terms of the money required to fix the £16billion pothole issue the country faces.