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Kier Highways Asset Inspection Watchmen earning basic £60,000 / year? In 2016, an internal email at Highways England stated:  If the hourly rate of an AIW increased by £20 / hour in or about 07/2014 and Highways England were paying no more than £24 / hr then and now, were they really paying just £4 / hour before 07/2014, or […]

10/10/2018 FoIA response @ WhatDoTheyKnow With regard to Appendix A to Annex 23 Tim Reardon, General Counsel for Highways England has written: In an attempt to close the matter down, can I underline the legal position in relation to Highways England’s entitlement to be recompensed for damage to its asset, the strategic road network: Where the damage is caused by the negligence […]

03/09/2018 – Following concerns we have raised since 2016 about Kier Highways Ltd (Kier) charging for vehicle registration marks (VRM’s) cited in claim papers that were not, or could not, used for attending incidents or undertaking repairs, Highways England’s Chief Executive is, almost 2 years later, investigating.  In an email copied to: Chris Grayling the Secretary of State for Transport Tom […]

To compile a bill to a third party (driver, fleet or insurer), Kier Highways use a schedule of defined costs.  However, to date, whilst these costs are claimed from the at fault driver, their fleet operator or insurer, Kier and Highways England have refused to release the figures.  A Third Party must therefore accept at face value the sums and […]

Figures obtained from Highways England evidence some rates used to charge  drivers, fleets and insurers in Area 8 doubled overnight following the appointment of Kier in April 2017.  Before this, Amey charged Highways England and Insurers using the same ‘base rates’ or defined costs’ with an example of the figures now being displayed here.  But Amey abandoned Areas 6 & […]

In response to an FoIA request, Highways England provided rates for AIW’s in Area’s 3 and 9 managed by Kier Highways.  These can be reviewed by clicking here. The response provided no rates for Areas 1 & 3 with Highways England stating: ‘For Area’s 1 and 13 the role of the Asset Incident Watchman (AIW) did not exist under these […]

An FoIA request made to Government Legal Department, passed to Highways England Company Ltd., has resulted in the release of defined costs for Area 3.  After years of having the figures withheld amid claims of ‘commercial sensitivity’ (or similar) the rates charged to Highways England by Kier Highways have been released … and as we expected, they are a lot […]

Numerous FoIA requests have been declined by Highways England using the ‘commercially sensitive’ exemption or ‘information not held’ and even ‘vexatious’.  Indeed, it appears the latter has been used against some making requests just because we have commented on their application at www.whatdotheyknow.com – it appears our free speech is to be affected.  Not wishing to prejudice the request of […]

The ‘secret’ equation revealed … Area 9 Claims – Following a motorway collision, fire or fluid spill, who receives and is expected to pay Kier Highways Ltd’s (KHL) bill for repair of the ‘Damage to Crown Property’ (DCP) is generally dictated by the cost: if above £10,000, Highways England Company Ltd (HE) is billed by KHL, pays the invoice then seeks […]

Reported by ‘Clean Highways‘: M25 – warning notice issued over litter Alerted by  David Adam’s article in the Guardian about  CleanHighways’ M40 campaign James Miller from Newton Abbott has now issued  his own  Warning Notice the Secretary of State for Transport. James had been appalled by the littered state of certain sections of the  M25 and M3.  His complaints to […]