Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy on toll charges on public highways that cross rivers and estuaries in the UK.

It is the Government's policy that those who benefit from the significant improvements brought about by estuarial crossings should help to pay for them. Successive Governments have taken the view that tolls are justified, given the high costs of constructing and maintaining such crossings, and the time savings that users make compared to alternative routes.