Benchmarking Highways England

Highways Monitor was created by the passing of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (‘the Act’). The Act gave us responsibility for monitoring how Highways England exercises its functions. This includes investigating, publishing reports and giving advice to the Secretary of State on whether and at what cost it is meeting its objectives of the current Road Investment Strategy (RIS) and any future RIS. We also have a duty to ensure Highways England complies with its duties under the Act more broadly. Under the Act we are...