A SLICE of the £100bn infrastructure spending being made by the Government should be coming to Bucks, Cabinet Minister Dominic Grieve believes.

The Beaconsfield MP and Attorney General expects some of the cash will be splashed on the county - possibly to repair the pothole ridden roads.

The Chancellor, George Osborne, announced recently he was investing the huge sum into principally transport related projects such as road and rail.

Mr Grieve told the Free Press: "Some of the infrastructure investment I rather hope will come to Buckinghamshire and there is going to be quite a lot of road investment (in general)."

Asked if he thought Bucks might get money to help restore the battered road network, he said:

"I would need to talk to the county council about that but I'd be disappointed if there weren't some things which are of direct benefit to Buckinghamshire. I can't provide any guarantees but those are things which I hope will be looked into."

Martin Tett said: "The reality at the moment is at the moment we don't know how much we're going to get from this extra money.

"The best indication from officers is a few million, perhaps two or three if we're lucky which, quite frankly, won't make a lot of difference in terms of the number of roads we can do.

"Obviously though every little help and we'll welcome the money as and when we see when we get."

Recently, Cllr Tett said hundreds of millions would be needed to completely fix the county's roads.

However, the Conservative controlled authority has pledged £28m for repairs over this year and next, on top of £30m spent over the previous three.

The major projects, which will attract the biggest funding, have been outlined in by the Treasury office.

Its document 'Investing in Britain's' Future' read: "The Government will repair the national road network, investing over £4 billion by 2020-21 to enable the Highways Agency to repair and renew the national road network, including resurfacing around 21,000 lane miles - eighty per cent of the Strategic Road Network.

It will also support local authorities to repair the local road network, investing nearly £6 billion over the next Parliament to tackle the significant maintenance backlog that exists today.

This is the equivalent of 19 million potholes a year up to 2020-21. Local authorities estimate a £10 billion backlog in local highways maintenance that would take twelve years to address if the funds were made available."