MORE than £10m has been spent on repairing potholes in Britain’s biggest county in the past 12 months.

Figures real the county council spent the money on repairing a total of 320,000 potholes over the year.

Last year, the authority was awarded £5.176m from the Government’s £200m pothole challenge fund to be spent before April 2015 on road repairs and maintenance.

The council supplemented that with more than £5m from its reserves, taking the total figure to £10.7m and enabling it to double the length of road resurfaced and number of potholes repaired.

Although there is no further pothole challenge funding this year, the county council has supplemented its £29m annual maintenance budget with a further £5m from its reserves.

Executive member for highways Don Mackenzie said: “We are pleased to have been able to spend this additional money to make a real difference on important routes for many of our communities and are grateful for the government support.

“It has made a small but significant contribution to our programme. However, we do still face a backlog of about £300m in highway maintenance.”

A full list of all the work funded by the £10.7m can be found at www.northyorks.gov.uk/potholefund.