AQW 28270/17-22 Written question to the Minister for Infrastructure
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of road openings undertaken by utilities during (i) the current financial year; and (ii) each of the last four financial years, broken down by utility company, in North Down.
Asked by Andrew Muir MLA on 18 January 2022
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 18 January 2022
- Answer due by
- 2 February 2022
- Answered
- 26 January 20228 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Infrastructure
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My Department collates details of road openings undertaken by utilities by Council area rather than by constituency. The figures below have been extracted from the Department’s Streets Works Register (NISRANS) and cover the entire Ards and North Down Council area:
| Utility | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
| NIE | 313 | 317 | 343 | 266 | 271 |
| NIW | 1546 | 1716 | 1570 | 1521 | 1362 |
| BT | 580 | 208 | 153 | 811 | 1209 |
| PNG | 1404 | 1412 | 1462 | 1212 | 1085 |
| Virgin Media | 1504 | 468 | 224 | 188 | 292 |
| Telephonia | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| C & W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| EE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Fibrus | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 51 |
| Firmus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |