To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the compensation claims, paid by her Department for damage caused to vehicles due to road defects, broken down by constituency, in each of the last five years.

The management information my Department holds in relation to roads related public liability claims can be found online at: https://www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/publications/road-asset-maintenance-directorate-management-information-roads-related-claims-period-20202021-20242025.

Table 4.2 provides details of concluded claims in which compensation was paid over the last five full financial years, broken down by Section Office and claim type. Please note that my Department maintains information on public liability claims by Roads Section Office areas, which broadly align with Council areas. In addition, claims received in a particular financial year are not always concluded in the same year. Therefore, the concluded claims figures for a given financial year will usually include claims that were received in previous financial years.

Claim figures have been extracted from DfI's Claims Management System, whereas the financial data has been extracted from the NICS accounting system, Account NI.