Annual assessment of National Highways' performance 2023 to 2024
15 January 2026
Holding National Highways to account
Scrutinising plans for the third Road Investment Strategy
28 August 2025
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ORR is undertaking an Efficiency Review of National Highways’ plans for the next five-year road period (2026 to 2031).
Annual assessments of National Highways
18 July 2025
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This content and related publications refer to our annual assessment of National Highways.
National Highways performance - operations, maintenance and renewals dashboards
18 July 2025
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We hold National Highways to account for the delivery and performance of its operations, maintenance and renewals work.
National Highways enhancements dashboards
18 July 2025
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We hold National Highways to account for the delivery of its enhancements programme.
National Highways licence monitoring and enforcement
30 January 2025
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Our monitoring framework and enforcement policy for National Highways, and how we monitor the company’s performance and identify, escalate and resolve areas of concern.
How does National Highways’ performance vary across England?
20 November 2024
Holding National Highways to account: policy consultation
1 August 2024
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Seeks views on updating our approach to holding National Highways to account.
National Highways has generally delivered well for road users but faces continuing challenges with its big projects
18 July 2023
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The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) in its annual assessment of National Highways, released today, says the company has delivered well against its financial and performance targets for 2022-23, but urges continued focus on efficiency and managing inflationary pressures on its enhancements in the coming year.
RIS2: Achieving real efficiency
8 October 2021
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Achieving real efficiency is one of the six outcomes National Highways (formerly Highways England) is required to deliver in the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2), set by government in March 2020.