Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons his Department has not put a request from Tees Valley Combined Authority for a new crossing over the River Tees on its priority list.

The Growth Plan sets out infrastructure projects which will be accelerated, aiming to get the majority into construction or under contract by the end of 2023. The scale of development work required for a project of the scale of the Tees Crossing means that is it not in that scope, but may be included in future schemes