Gov­ern­ment has set out the need for greater trans­parency across its oper­a­tions to enable the pub­lic to hold pub­lic bod­ies and politi­cians to account. This includes com­mit­ments relat­ing to pub­lic expen­di­ture, intended to help achieve bet­ter value for money.

The DfT Trans­parency Web­page pub­lishes details for the whole of the Depart­ment which includes the DfT Busi­ness Plan, Organ­i­sa­tion Charts, Head­quar­ter build­ings energy con­sump­tion, Min­is­te­r­ial gifts and the Depart­ments Infor­ma­tion Asset Register.

High­ways Agency pub­lic expen­di­ture infor­ma­tion is included in the following:

• Depart­men­tal spend­ing over £500
• Excep­tions to the mora­to­rium on dis­cre­tionary spend
• Con­tracts Finder — all new Gov­ern­ment ten­der and con­tract documents
• Depart­ment for Trans­port and NDPB salary dis­clo­sure data
• Busi­ness expenses and hos­pi­tal­ity for senior officials

High­ways Agency Oper­a­tional Data

All datasets pub­lished by the High­ways Agency are avail­able from data.gov. These include:

• Jour­ney time and traf­fic flow data for 15-minute peri­ods since Octo­ber 2009 on the Strate­gic Road Net­work in England.
• Jour­ney reli­a­bil­ity on the High­ways Agency Net­work con­tains data on the per­cent­age of ‘jour­neys’ that are ‘on time’ by road sec­tion by rolling year.
• Planned road­works on the High­ways Agency net­work pub­lished as a weekly bul­letin with 15 day for­ward look.
• The mean and median aver­age inci­dent dura­tion times and num­ber of inci­dents by dura­tion on motor­ways on the strate­gic road net­work pub­lished monthly.
• Live traf­fic infor­ma­tion pre­sented as sep­a­rate “infor­ma­tion prod­ucts” in xml using Datex 2.

Man­ag­ing and Pub­lish­ing High­ways Agency Performance

The DfT agrees per­for­mance mea­sures for the Agency each year which are pub­lished in our Busi­ness Plan. These mea­sure the Agency’s per­for­mance in deliv­er­ing the key objec­tives set in the Frame­work Doc­u­ment. The annual results of our per­for­mance are then pub­lished after year-end in our Annual Report & Accounts. Our Busi­ness Plans and Annual Reports are avail­able under the ‘Cor­po­rate Doc­u­ments’ area of this website.

High­ways Agency Direc­tors’ Expenses

As well being com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing the best value road ser­vice, we are also strive to ensure that we under­take our work in the most effec­tive man­ner pos­si­ble. Our Direc­tors’ remu­ner­a­tion is pub­lished in our Annual Report & Accounts, and are included in the Senior Civil Ser­vants remu­ner­a­tion data set on the DfT Trans­parency web­page. Direc­tors also receive rec­om­pense for rea­son­able expenses incurred in under­tak­ing their duties, details of which are pub­lished here: Director’s Expenses.

High­ways Agency Hos­pi­tal­ity Registers

From time to time, High­ways Agency Direc­tors receive invites of hos­pi­tal­ity from other organ­i­sa­tions. Records of hos­pi­tal­ity offered, whether they are taken or not, are main­tained in Hos­pi­tal­ity Reg­is­ters. Direc­tors Hos­pi­tal­ity Reg­is­ters are pub­lished here: Hos­pi­tal­ity Reg­is­ters.

Salary Dis­clo­sure Data

Salary dis­clo­sure data CSV files include:

SCS staff salaries — name, grade, job title, FTE, par­ent depart­ment, organ­i­sa­tion, unit, actual pay floor, actual pay ceil­ing
Junior staff FTE — par­ent depart­ment, organ­i­sa­tion, unit, report­ing SCS, grade, num­ber of posts FTE

• High­ways Agency SCS staff salaries (CSV — 16KB)
• High­ways Agency Junior staff FTE salaries (CSV — 29KB)
• High­ways Agency organogram
• Depart­ment for Trans­port: Non Con­sol­i­dated Per­for­mance Related Pay Awarded in Finan­cial Year 2010/11 (Excel — 27KB)
• Depart­ment for Trans­port: Non Con­sol­i­dated Per­for­mance Related Pay Awarded in Finan­cial Year 2010/11 (CSV — 6KB)

Web­site Accreditation

The High­ways Agency’s web­site vis­i­tor data is audited annu­ally by ABCe, on behalf of the Cen­tral Office of Infor­ma­tion. The lat­est audit for the High­ways Agency web­site was con­ducted in August 2010. See ABCe cer­tifi­cate for HA web­site, August 2010.