Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Department or National Highways has undertaken any assessment of the potential use of tolling or road user charging on roads funded through Roads Investment Strategy 3.

With the exception of the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), there are no plans for tolling or road user charging on roads funded through Roads Investment Strategy 3, other than where such arrangements are already in place.

LTC will be financed using the Regulated Asset Base model as this is the best way of reducing the cost burden of the project to taxpayers. To do this, the model harnesses private investment, with a link through to charges on users, who are ultimately major beneficiaries of the scheme.