12/2019: Following a 25/07/2017 FoIA request (ICO Reference: FS50703446), we currently await the information sought: The Defined costs, those referred[…]
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Category: 2017 Kier Highways Ltd Audit
The Highways England / KPMG audit of Kier Highways Ltd., the outcome of which appears to have been pre-ordained, a foregone conclusion – assuming there ever was any ‘investigation’.
Highways …”we have a problem”
“Okay, Highways, we’ve had a problem here.” “Say again please.” “Highways, we’ve had a problem. We’ve had a response undermine[…]
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Highways England Unable or Unwilling to Stop Inflated Claims?
3 years ago … November 2016, Jim O’Sullivan Highways England’s CEO: ‘Thanks for your note. I also want to ensure[…]
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Are Kier Presenting False Costs to Highways England on Every Claim?
Following an incident causing Damage to Crown property (DCP), Kier Highways Ltd. reported to Highways England that they recovered from[…]
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Exaggeration is Fraud
In terms of insurance, ‘fraud’ can be a grey area … is a claimant, with whom the insurer has a[…]
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Highways England’s Permission To Appeal REFUSED
It is troubling to have someone deem a FoIA request ‘vexatious’ but this is the approach Highways England adopted when[…]
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Kier Highways Sanctioned For Late Payments
Given the regular exaggeration associated with Kier Highway’s invoicing process since they acquired Area 9 in 2014, it is possibly[…]
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A Problem is Not Knowing the Problem
31/10/2019, Highway England, ‘suspending’ NSORC stated: ‘Contracts between Highways England (and in the past the Highways Agency) and maintenance contractors[…]
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Trick or Treat?
The ‘National Schedule of Repair Costs for Network Damage’ (NSORC) has been ‘suspended’ Following months of trying to elicit information[…]
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NSORC back to the drawing board?
Just what is the National Audit office going to review next month? NSORC appears to have have been a naively[…]
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