THE costly work of patching up the county’s potholes is set for a cash injection.

Oxfordshire County Council will be gifted with £1.3m to tackle cracks and crevices in its roads, the Government confirmed today.

The Department for Transport has released a list of areas that will benefit from a pothole-busting cash boost - with Oxfordshire receiving the fourth highest sum in the whole of the South East.

Council spokesman Martin Crabtree said: “Investment in our roads is always welcome and we are getting an allocation again for the Pothole Action Fund of £1.315m, which is £300,000 more than last year.

“There is also an invitation to bid into a new national road safety pot, which includes identification of ‘roads of most concern’.”

The department’s document lists the top 10 roads in the region that it deems to have the highest risk of fatal and serious collisions - of which one is the A44 from Banbury to Chipping Norton.

The county council will get to bid for a share of £175m that the Government has set aside to improve road safety.

Mr Crabtree added: “The announcement also confirms the £27m to fund the first stages of design work for an Oxford-Cambridge expressway, which is also a county council priority.”

All three schemes were first revealed during the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement last year, but today’s document sets this in stone.

The North East Combined Authority was given the country’s most cash for potholes, at almost £3.26m.