Pages
- ‘Planning’ Charges
- ‘We have no DCP Rates’ – Really?
- 01/2017 to 12/2017 Time Line
- 01/2018 to 12/2018 Time Line
- 01/2019 to 12/2019 Time Line
- 02/2016 M6
- 02/2016 M6 PCC Report
- 03/06/2019 FoIA Request Appendix A non-compliance, Enquiries, Activities & Conduct
- 03/2018 Seeking Audit Update
- 04/06/2019 FoIA Review Area 10 Rates
- 04/07/2019 Overview of Current Issues
- 06/03/2016 FoIA Pricing Methodologies used by Kier
- 06/06/2017 Complaint & Concerns
- 06/07/2017 Letter to Shakespeare Martineau Solicitors re Appendix A
- 07/03/2017 Area 9 Defined Costs & Third Party Claims Overhead
- 07/04/2016 Highways England re Notional Rates (DCP Rates)
- 08/04/2019 FoIA Labour, Pant & Equipment Rates
- 09/02/2017 FoIA ASC ‘Technical Validation Clarification’
- 09/08/2019 FoIA IR Area 10 Schedule of Rates
- 09/09/2016 Statement of Fact
- 10/05/2019 HE FoIA: DCP Rate Calculation
- 10/06/2019 to Highways England High-Level Correspondence
- 10/2015 Concerns Raised with Highways England
- 10/2015 Report to Highways England about Kier Highway sLtd
- 10/2017 AIW Role
- 11/07/2019 Annex to Sharon McCarthy NAO Letter
- 11/07/2019 Highways England letter to NAO re ‘Misunderstanding’
- 1153 – The Figures
- 1153 Claims Costs & Processes
- 1153 Exageration Example
- 1153 Gross Overstatement
- 1153 Misinformation
- 118 FoI Requests for Mythical Rates
- 12/06/2019 FoIA re Kier Not Issuing Invoices & New Rates required
- 13/05/2019 to Highway England re Litter & Debris
- 13/07/2016 FoIA Response – Rates are Commercially Sensitive
- 13/07/2019 Brit motorway fires soar as summers dry up
- 14/05/2019 NAO Meeting Notes
- 141021 Kier Highways Audit
- 141128 Kier Audit
- 15/11/2017 Explanation to KPMG
- 15/11/2017 Overview of Concerns to KPMG
- 150529 AIW’s working outside ‘Core Hours’
- 150916 FoIA Request for New Green Claims Manual
- 151026 Complaint To Highways England re Contractors
- 151027 Amey & Area 9
- 16/04/2019 Complaint to National Audit Office
- 16/04/2019 to Highways England Management re Defined Costs
- 16/04/2019 To Jim O’Sullivan of Highways England
- 160107 Audit by Highways England
- 160110 Kier Highways ‘Audit’
- 160119 to Kier re £25 / hour for an AIW
- 160323 Tim Reardon and the Schedule of Rates
- 160324 To Highways England re Overcharging by Kier & Lack of Transparency
- 160331 Report to Kier Highways
- 160405 Tim Reardon Writes About Kier Rates
- 160421 To Highways England re Overstatement and Lack of Transparency
- 160622 DCP Electronic Costs Transfer Monthly
- 160700 Parliamentary Ombudsman
- 160706 FoIA 738807 Reply – Pricing Methodologies
- 160706 Pricing Methodolgies
- 161025 Lumpsum & Recoveries FoIA 743153
- 161025 Pain/Gain, AIW’s etc FoIA 743,153
- 161118 Nothing To Show For A Lot of Effort
- 161228 CCTV Retention Letter
- 17/04/2019 Reardon email
- 170111 U10D233 Area 10 Labour Rates
- 170317 EA/2018/0104 FoIA Response ‘Commercially Sensitive’
- 170406 CCTV Documented Purposes
- 170412 Highways England ‘Overlook’ Evidence
- 170413 To Highways England re AMOUNTS CLAIMED FROM THIRD PARTIES
- 170504 Luke Ellis Statement Hughes C08YP765
- 170606 To Highways England re Inability to Price Claims & Exaggerating Every Invoice
- 170703 Kier Highways Fleet & AIW’s 24/7
- 170706 Kier CorClaim Letter
- 170928 Conversation Sarah Green of Highways England
- 171115 KPMG and ‘Project Verde’
- 171115 KPMG Submission
- 171212 To Sarah Green @ Highways England re Kier Rates
- 180104 Sharon McCarthy emails
- 180212 Conversation Sarah Green of Highways England
- 180215 Derby County Court BBMM for Highways England
- 180228 Conversation Sarah Green of Highways England
- 180307 To Highways England re Audit Activity (lack of)
- 180322 Threat from Highways England
- 180327 ICO DN AIW Defined Costs
- 180424 Area 10 and the Public Purse
- 180504 Area 6&8 Kier Exaggeration Example
- 180706 Carney Letters to HE Contractors
- 180803 Statement of Patrick Carney EA/2018/0104
- 180828 2nd Statement of Patrick Carney EA/2018/0104
- 180910 FoIA to Highways England re Inflating Claims & a ‘Lot of Effort’
- 180924 To Highways CEO re Agreed Schedule of Rates
- 180924 To Highways England re Grossly Inflated Claims
- 181004 to Jim O’Sullivan of Highways England
- 181205 FoIA 767, 652
- 181213 Tribunal Decision EA/2018/0088 – Mr Swift is NOT Vexatious
- 181217 CMA to Highways England re DCP Charges
- 19/06/2019 Pain / Gain Share FoIA
- 19/08/2017 Below 10K but ‘Mates Rates’ to Highways England
- 190104 & 190215 Jim O’Sullivan Conversations
- 190207 IR from Highways England re DCP & ASC Rates
- 190211 Grounds of Appeal on Behalf of Highways England
- 190219 Permission to Appeal Refused EA/2018/0088
- 190222 FoI ‘The Schedule of Damage to Crown Property Rates – Area 10’
- 190310 Kier Rates to Highways England Area 7
- 190325 to Highways England re DCP Rates
- 190401 ICO Decision Notice FS50741018
- 190402 Pam Clements ICO
- 190416 Concerns Raised with the NAO
- 190424 FoIA Contractor Charges, Recoveries & Lump-Sum Payments for DCP Works
- 190429 ICO Brief Response & ‘Joinder’ EA/2019/0119
- 190510 DCP Charges to Highways England
- 190516 National Audit Office
- 190528 to the National Audit Office
- 190604 from and to the NAO
- 190612 Pain/Gain & Re-Price FoIA Response
- 190624 AOne+ Increase DCP Rates
- 190628 Conversation re NSoRC
- 190703 Email to NSORC
- 190704 Extract from NSORC Conversation
- 190704 Report to H.E. NSORC Team
- 190704 Tim & Introduction of a national schedule of repair costs for network damage (Green Claims)
- 190723 Area 10 BBMM Above Threshold Rates & Subsidy
- 190802 ASC Rates ARE NOT Used To Work Out The Defined Cost
- 190802 FoI Area 10 Schedule of Rates – Contradictions
- 190812 FoI National Schedule Of Repair Costs For Network Damage
- 190812 NSoRC – The Data Behind the Rates
- 190907 Independent Complaints Assessor (ICA) Referral Request
- 190913 HE Application For Permission To Appeal REFUSED
- 190917 To Jim O’Sullivan re Conversations
- 190920 FoIA response re Explanation of Defined Cost Calculation
- 190920 FoIA response re Pain/Gain Share
- 190924 Highways England’s NSORC
- 190927 Fluid Spill & Resurfacing
- 190930 DCP Charges to Highways England Internal Review Request
- 191001 FoIA to Highways England about the Pain/Gain Share
- 191003 NSoRC & ‘Planned’ Works
- 191004 HE CCTV Response
- 191010 FoI Departmental Responses to 175 Rate-Related FoI Requests
- 191015 Tribunal Appeal re Area 9 & 10 DCP Rates FS50821725
- 191023 Highways England: Stopped vehicle detection would have saved lives
- 191023 Smart motorways ‘too confusing’, says highways boss
- 191024 Shapps announces review of smart motorways
- 191025 Highways England Demand Letter
- 191028 Transport Committee to Highways England re Smart Motorways
- 191031 Kier Claims Process Sub-£10,000
- 191031 State Enabled Exaggeration on an Industrial Scale
- 191106 FoIA NSORC Pilot Outcome
- 191112 DCP Rates Tribunal Appeal 2019/0119
- 191118 Clarification re NSoRC FoIA
- 191129 Knights Plc Excessive Demand
- 191201 Current Highways Concerns
- 191204 Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
- 191205 FoIA Response re Defined Costs – Post Tribunal
- 191205 PHSO
- 191209 Letter From NAO re ‘No Schedule of DCP Rates’
- 191211 Complaint to NAO re DCP Rates U-Turn
- 191211 Exaggeration & Misrepresentation – Balfour Beatty Mott Mac Donald (BBMM) / Area 10 Rates
- 191211 Exaggeration & Misrepresentation – Kier Highways / Areas 6, 8 & 9 Rates
- 191212 FoI Claims Related Information
- 191216 HE Response to Areas 6, 8 & 9 Rates
- 191219 Appeal No: EA/2019/0119 Decision
- 191228 To Highways England
- 191229 to Highways England re Areas 6, 8 & 9 Rates
- 191230 Highways England Contractor’s Withholding Information?
- 20 200814 Tribunal Patrick Carney 1
- 20 200814 Tribunal Patrick Carney 2
- 20 David Ash Tribunal EA/2019/0390
- 20 Greg Barnes Tribunal EA/2019/0390
- 20 Paul Brown Tribunal EA/2019/0390
- 20 Tribunal Brian Read
- 20/03/2019 Hansard
- 20/08/2018 BBMM Statement re Sub-Threshold Incident
- 20/11/2016 Area 9 Claim Analysis
- 200106 FS50803075 Decision Notice
- 200120 FoIA Highways England re Kier Rates & Contractor Approaches
- 200120 To Highways England re Areas 6, 8 & 9 Rates
- 200122 National Audit Office
- 200122 to NAO re Apparent Inability to Record Fact
- 200129 Highways England Smart Motorways – current position
- 200131 Luke Ellis Witness Statement For FoIA Tribunal
- 200203 Smart Motorways – Highways England’s Current Position
- 200204 ASC Rates ARE Used To Work Out The Defined Cost
- 200204 Kier Materials
- 200211 NAO stage 3 complaint reply
- 200211 To NAO re Escalation of Complaint
- 200213 Hansard Smart Motorways Short Debate
- 200225 To Highways England Re Kier Contract Non-Compliance & Fraud
- 200225 to Highways England re. S. Wales Stayed Claims (Kier Areas 6, 8 & 9)
- 200226 Highways England Response to Image Tampering
- 200226 Kier Claims Update
- 200309 From NAO re Progression of Complaint
- 200309 Highways England talks about the importance of preventing diesel spills
- 200316 FoIA re Contractor Exchanges (x4)
- 200316 Highways England re Kier Exaggeration & Fraud
- 200319 ICO FoIA & 20 Working Days From Request
- 200324 Response to Highways England re Kier Highways Exaggeration & Fraud
- 200325 Further Request that CCTV Evidence is Retained
- 200401 A Sizeable Backlog of Claims & Monies Owed to Highways England
- 200403 Highways England Re Contract Non-Compliance & Fraud
- 200427 Kier Highways Schedules of Rates
- 200430 from HE Area 3 Equipment Schedule
- 200430 IR Highways England re ‘Actual Costs’
- 200501 To Essex Police re M25 Fatal Collision
- 200501 to Highways England re Deleted Rates Schedules
- 200505 IR Compliance with & Cessation of Appendix A to Annex 23
- 200507 Complaint – Use of Appendix A in S Wales Matters
- 200510 Kier’s Latest Profiteering Process
- 200521 Complaint Re Withholding Schedules of DCP Rates
- 200522 IR: Highways England & Contractor Exchanges FoIA
- 200528 FoIA – All Schedules of DCP Rates inc. SpreadSheets
- 200605 FoIA re Area 10 Schedule of Rates Contradcictions
- 200619 Tribunal Findings & Abuses
- 200629 to ICO re s.77 & Tribunals
- 200701 FoIA CBD’s & Associated Schedules of DCP rates
- 200706 Kier Operative Rates to Northamptonshire County Council
- 200708 FoIA ICO DN re Claims Handling Manual
- 200708 HE Complaint re S. Wales Stayed Matters & Use of Appendix A
- 200708 HE Complaint re Withheld Schedules of DCP Rates
- 200708 HE re Image Tampering
- 200708 Highways England vs. Aviva
- 200710 Distortion of Facts by HE FoI Regarding Image Tampering
- 200713 Unreliable Kier Highways Records
- 200724 Complaint re Approaches to Kier Highways
- 200802 Image Alteration Complaint
- 200819 Highways England to pay costs for poor advice
- 200821 Judgement re Kier Rates
- 200824 Kier & England Highways Concerns
- 200824 The ICO and 40-Day Internal Review Extension
- 200830 DCP Rate Information ‘Held’
- 200831 To Tribunal re EA/2018/0088 Decision Information
- 200903 and 200925 DfT Responses to Concerns
- 200907 DCP Rates Exist
- 200923 to ICO re Internal Review Failings & Moss
- 200923 TO ICO re Internal Review of 40 Day IR Period
- 200928 ICO re s.77 IC/0099/2019
- 200928 IR request re Kier Schedules of DCP Rates Held &/or Deleted
- 200928 to ICO re s77 Allegation
- 200930 David Hartley Ass. Chief Constable S. Yorkshire Police
- 200930 ICO Complaint Acknowledgement and Response
- 200930 to ICO Andy Curry re Complaints
- 201005 there is a Pain Gain Share, no there is not, yes there is ….
- 201006 ICO FoIA Corclaim & Jim
- 201007 Request for Information Arising from Cardiff Court Judgement
- 201009 FoIA Request for the ‘Contractually Agreed Rates’ Agreed by Kier & Highways England for DCP Works
- 201009 re Appeal re Non-Disclosure of DCP Rates EA/2018/0088
- 201013 ICO DN re Contractor Cost Submission & Pain/Gain
- 201014 ICO DN re Pain/Gain Share in Areas 9 & 10
- 201026 Complaint to ICO re the ICO (40 day IR)
- 201026 HE Comment Upon the NSoRC
- 201026 Internal Review by the ICO of the ICO’s Response
- 201030 Dressing up Costs
- 201104 From ICO re Highways England & the Pain/Gain Share U-Turn
- 201104 Recalculation of Charges & Conflict?
- 201104 Reimbursement of Unauthorised Payments
- 201106 To ICO Re Highways England Pain Gain U-Turn
- 201109 Why Are Kier Supplying False Claim Information to Highways England
- 201119 FoIA Appeal re. Jim, Tim & Nick’s ‘lot of effort’
- 201119 FoIA Appeal Re. Shakespeare Martineau Information Held
- 201120 Birmingham & Kier FoIA Response (1)
- 201125 Birmingham City Council & Kier Highways Ltd
- 201125 The ICO and the 20-Day Internal Review Abuse
- 2012 Mouchel in Administration
- 201203 Kier Highways Abuses Enabled & Permitted by Government
- 201210 Temporary VRS (vehicle restraint system) Abuse
- 201214 ICO re Highways England & KPMG Audit – Overview
- 201215 BBMM and HHJ Godsmark’s Judgement C08YP765
- 201216 Area 10 Kier Highways Claim Inconsistencies – Paid in Full by Highways England
- 201223 From & To Highways England re BAU / FoIA / Vexatious
- 201230 to the ICO re Highways England, KPMG & Kier Highways Profiteering
- 2013 Amey Area 9
- 2015 or 2016?
- 2015 Sub-Threshold Information Request & Reply
- 2016 Area 9 CBD
- 2016 M20 J4 Bridge Strike
- 2016 Transport Committee
- 2017 FoIA Request for Defined Costs FS50741018 757609
- 2017 Traffic Commissioner Applications
- 2018 / 2019 Balfour Beatty Rates to Leicester City Council
- 2018 Area 10 Rates
- 2020 Kier Highways 7th Approach to DCP Rates
- 2020 New Year, New Rates & Old Problems
- 20Tribunal Liz Herridge of Highways England
- 21/08/2015 CMA letter to Neil Pendlebury-Green
- 210104 To Derby County Court re Luke Ellis’ Evidence & HHJ Godsmark Judgement
- 210104 to ICO re the NSoRC FoIA
- 210106 Highways England and the Cardiff Court Contractually Agreed Rates Avoidance
- 210106 Highways England’s Spin on a Judgement citing ‘Contractually Agreed Rates’ – of course they exist!
- 210106 to Highways England’s ‘Contractually Agreed Rates for Repairs’ Exist
- 210106 to the ICO: Highways England’s Secrecy about ‘Actual Costs’
- 210108 Release The Responses to 175 FoIA Requests/Reviews
- 210108 To HE re Provision of Information Delays/Obstruction
- 210110 Removed from front Page
- 210114 Birmingham & Kier FoIA Response (2)
- 210114 to MP re HE & DfT Failure to Act
- 210127 To ICO: DCP Rates & ASC Rates the Same
- 210201 To NAO re DCP Rates Exist; they are the same as ASC Rates
- 210215 DN The NSoRC Information FoIA
- 23/04/2019 to Jim O’Sullivan re DCP Rates & Concerns
- 24/03/2018 M2 1000 litre spill
- 24/05/2018 FoIA Response – Rates are Commercially Sensitive
- 26/04/2018 to Tim re Area 6&8 Example
- 28/04/2015 Staff Charges Area 3
- 30/11/2017 M1 Pile-Up Blamed on Smart Motorway
- 5400 Incidents per Annum
- 732674 KHL and above threshold claims
- 738640 Kier Rates Commercially Sensitive
- 749305 Defined Costs sought
- A Guide to Claims
- A Schedule of DCP Rates for Repairs to the SRN
- A Schedule of Defined Costs – Careless, Reckless of Worse?
- A1(M)
- Abbreviations
- AD and M&R Contracts
- AIW & DCP Manager Cost Contradictions
- AIW Agila
- AIW Defined Cost Process
- AIW Focus
- AIW Hourly Rates
- AIW Hourly Rates Calculation
- AIW Hours – More Contradictions
- AIW Information
- AIW Information
- AIW Job Description
- AIW Mathematics
- AIW Paired
- AIW Rates 2014 to 2016
- AIW Rates from Highways England
- AIW Rates of Pay and / or Charge
- AIW Salary Rate Multipliers
- AIW Shifts
- AIW Shifts and Incident Response
- AIW Shifts Multipliers and Evidence
- AIW Vehicles
- AIW’s – Do the Math’
- AIW’s work shifts
- Altered Time Sheets
- Amey
- Amey & Cumbria County Council
- Amey Area 8 Rates pre 04/2017 Kier
- Amey re Charges
- Amounts Claimed From Third Parties
- Animals
- Annex 19
- Annex 19 FoIA & The Public Purse
- Annex 19 Reports
- AOne+
- Aone+ 2018 DCP Annual Staff Costs
- AOne+ DCP Rates over £10k
- Appendix A is Applied
- Appendix A to Annex 23
- April 2019 DCP Repair Rate Schedule
- Archive Page
- Are There DCP Rates in Areas 9 and/or 10 and Does it Matter?
- Are VRM’s Personal data?
- Area 10 & Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald
- Area 10 & CECA Rates for Third Party Claims
- Area 10 & Schedules of Rates
- Area 10 BBMM & CECA costs
- Area 10 BBMM 2018 Above Threshold Rates
- Area 10 BBMM Claims & CECA Rates
- Area 10 BBMM Rate Statements
- Area 10 CECA Rates & Charges Time Line
- Area 10 Costs
- Area 10 DCP Rates Exist
- Area 10 DCP Rates Unaffected by Lump-Sum Payment
- Area 10 Guide
- Area 10 Kier Highways (2019 on)
- Area 10 Kier Highways (2019 on) Plant
- Area 10 Labour Rates
- Area 10 Plant Rates to Highways England
- Area 10 Schedule of DCP Exists
- Area 10 Staff / Admin’ Rates
- Area 10 Tribunal Appeal Reference: EA/2018/0104
- Area 12 Rates
- Area 13 DCP Staff Assignment Breakdown
- Area 3
- Area 3 Costs (U03A991) FoIA7
- Area 3 Labour Rates
- Area 3 Plant Rates
- Area 3 Rate Comparison
- Area 4 ASC Exchange re Rates
- Area 6 & 8 Kier Highways Rate Info
- Area 6 & 8 Labour Rates
- Area 6 & 8 Time Line
- Area 6&8 Defined Costs / DCP Rates
- Area 7 Plant Rates
- Area 8 Rates
- Area 9 – Sample Costs
- Area 9 Annex 23 Appendix A
- Area 9 Annex 23 Requirements
- Area 9 Audit by KPMG ‘Project Verde’
- Area 9 Case Study 1
- Area 9 Charges to Third Parties & Highways England
- Area 9 Conditions Of Contract For The Asset Support Contract
- Area 9 Electronic Charges Make-Up
- Area 9 Guide
- Area 9 Investigation Concluded, Not Concluded, Concluded …
- Area 9 Investigation Farce
- Area 9 Kier Highways DCP Rates Exist
- Area 9 Kier Rates Comparison Above & Below Threshold
- Area 9 Labour Rates
- Area 9 Plant Rates
- Area 9 Rate Drop
- Area 9 Rates
- Area 9 Rates
- Area 9 Rates to Highways England
- Area 9 Schedule of DCP Exists
- Area 9 Staff Rates
- Area 9 Sub-Threshold Data
- Area 9 Under Amey
- Area1
- Area10
- Area11
- Area12
- Area13
- Area14
- Area2
- Area4
- Area5 M25
- Area6
- Area7
- Area8
- Area9
- Areas
- Article 75
- Articles
- ASC & DCP Rates
- ASC Prescriptive
- ASC vs. DCP Rates
- Asset Delivery Contracts
- Asset Support Contract (ASC)
- Audits
- Audits of Highways Contractors now Commercially Sensitive
- Authority To Act
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Averaging Kier Claim Costs
- Balfour Beatty
- Barrier Repairs
- Base Rates Should Be Common to Insurers and Highways England
- Basic Rules of Billing
- BBMM ‘Poacher’ Working for Highways England
- BBMM and their Abuse (permitted) of the Public Purse
- BBMM Area 10 letter re Rates
- BBMM Area 10 Rates
- BBMM Area 10 Rates Labour
- BBMM Area 10 Rates Plant
- BBMM Area 10 Subsidy, CECA and ‘Something Else’
- BBMM Withhold Above-Threshold DCP Rates
- Below-Threshold Claims
- Birmingham City Council / Highways Claims
- Birmingham Council Contract s.5 ‘Routine Maintenance’ Objectives
- Birmingham Council Contract Schedule 15 ‘Claims’
- Birmingham Council Contract Schedule 29 Statutory Functions
- Birmingham Council Contract with Kier Highways Ltd (FoIA)
- Blacklisted
- Blow Outs
- Bridge Info’
- Bridge Maintenance Backlog
- Bridge Strike Claim References & Resources
- Bridge Strike Data
- Bridge Strikes
- Bridges
- Carillion
- Case Studies
- CBD is Not Defined Costs
- CCTV
- CCTV Monitoring
- CCTV Obstruction
- CECA Rates
- Charge Comparision
- Charge Rates are NOT Commercially Sensitive
- Charges Balance Out
- Charges Introduction
- Charging Methodology
- Choking … You Are Negligent
- Claims & Costs
- Claims Brought as Tort of Negligence
- Claims Insurers Agreed to Kier Pricing Process
- CLEAR – Collision, Lead, Evaluate, Act and Re-open
- Clear As Mud
- Coles v Hetherton – Subrogation Ruling Creates a Moral Dilemma
- Collision Attendance & Repair Costs on Sub-Threshold Claim
- Collisions
- Commercially Embarrassing Rates
- Commercially Sensitive
- Commercially Sensitive or Commercially Embarrassing
- Commercially Sensitive, Not Held or Vexatious
- Committee’s recommendations
- Concerns
- Conduct
- Constabulary Contact List
- Contact
- Contract Rates ‘Not Held’
- Contractor Claim Information Sent
- Contractor Claim Information Sent to HE
- Contractor Information held by Highways England
- Contractors
- Contradictions
- Conversation Transcripts
- Conway Aecom Rates
- Corclaim (Shakespeare Martineau LLP), Coles v Hetherton & Highways England’s CEO
- Core Hour Evidence
- Core Hours & CBD
- Cost Breakdown Document (CBD) spot the difference
- Costain/Laing O’Rourke JV manager jailed for corruption
- Costs
- Costs and how they are made up
- Council Charges & Information
- Court Evidence Defined Cost & TP Overhead
- Court Transcripts
- Current Issues & Developments
- Cycling
- Daily Allocation Sheet
- Damage to Crown Property (DCP) Rates Exists
- Damage to Crown Property Rates
- Dash-Cams
- DCP Charge Concerns Raised with Highways England
- DCP Claims and the Kier Schedule of Rates (KSoR)
- DCP costs for Areas 9 and 10
- DCP Rates ‘Commercially Sensitive’ Until The Excuse Falls Away …
- DCP Rates – 175 Requests & Reviews of … nothing!
- DCP Rates – The Time Line
- DCP Rates Exist!
- DCP Rates for Emergency Reactive Responses
- Debris – Removed When it Causes an Incident!
- Debris Disposal Charges
- Deceitful Profiting From Misery
- Deed of Variation Back-Dated
- Defined Cost + TP Claims Overhead = Maximum Charge
- Defined Costs
- Defined Costs & The Public Purse
- Defined Costs (DCP Rates) NOT Commercially Sensitive
- Defined Costs – Held & Audited!
- Defined Costs – The Responses Evidencing the Existence of a Schedule
- Defined Costs Are Consistent
- Defined Costs Explained
- Defined Costs Request
- Defined Costs, DCP Rates or Notional Rates
- Deliberate Destruction of CCTV Recordings
- Differing Factor Between Claims – Same Number, Different Display
- Directory
- Disposal of unacceptable material (U1A)
- Distraction Evidence
- Do AIW’s Work Shifts?
- Do Kier Highways Owe £millions?
- Documents
- Drivers, Fleets & Insurers Subsidising Road Repairs
- Driving
- Dual Charge Rates
- Dual Rate Deception?
- Electronic Records
- Erroneous VRMs
- Escalating Costs
- Evidence
- Evidence
- Evidence of Contract Non-Compliance & Fraud
- Evidence of Kier Exaggeration Allegation
- Exaggeration & Misrepresentation of Multipliers / Uplifts
- Exaggeration Court Case 2018
- Exaggeration Example – Abuse of the Public Purse
- Exaggeration, Fraud and Incompetence
- Exaggeration, Profiteering & Fraud in the Name of Highways England
- Example Emails to Sarah Green of Highways England
- Example of Area 9 Exaggeration
- Examples of Charges
- Exceedingly Good Rates
- Factors for Non- Disclosure
- Female Storm Names Not Taken Seriously?
- Fire Incidents 2013 to 2017
- Fire Information
- Fire Report – Get One
- Fire Resources
- Fire Service Reports
- Fires & Negligence
- Fleets Subsidising Road Maintenance
- Flooding
- Fluid Spills
- Fluid Spills Double
- FOI REQUEST 762,168 Accuracy
- FoI Response Charges Commercially Confidential
- FoI Validation of Contractor Invoices Pre-payment
- FoIA & KHL Rates Contradictions
- FoIA – Area 9 ASC Appendix A to Annex 23
- FoIA 2018 Appendix A to Annex 23 in Area 9
- FoIA AIW Rates ICO Decision
- FoIA and Sub-Contractors
- FoIA AOne+ Area 12’s 24/06/2019 New Schedule of DCP Rates
- FoIA Area 3 Defined Costs
- FoIA Area 6 and 8 ASC Kier & Amey Rates
- FoIA Area 9 ASC Appendix A to Annex 23
- FoIA ASC Appendix A to Annex 23
- FOIA Commercial Interests
- FoIA Costing of Kier’s Claims in Area 9
- FoIA FS50684952 Differing Costs
- FoIA Inflating Claims
- FoIA Kier AIWs Patrol Hours
- FoIA Kier ASC Defined Cost & Fee
- FoIA Kier Averaging
- FoIA Kier Charges to HIGHWAYS ENGLAND
- FoIA Kier Charging Processes
- FoIA Kier M6 shifts
- FoIA Monitoring
- FoIA Process
- FoIA re Defined Costs & TPCO 767984
- FoIA Request for Area 9 & 10 DCP Rates
- FoIA Request for VRM Data
- FoIA Request ICO FS50802326
- FoIA Requests
- FoIA Requests to TFL
- FoIA Response Defined Costs Do Not Exist
- FoIA Sub-Threshold Data Held By Highways England
- FoIA Sub-Threshold Data sent to Highways England
- FoIA The Schedule of Damage to Crown Property Rates – Area 10
- FoIA Third Party Claims
- FoIA Third Party Claims Defined Cost
- FoIA Third Party Claims Overhead (TPCO)
- FoIA Vexatious
- Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) & Smart Motorways
- Freedom of Information Act Requests
- Freedom of Information Requests to Highways England
- FS50604944
- FS50711881 Decision Notice
- FS50880989 FoIA & More Authority Contradictions
- Fuel Spill Information
- General Counsel
- GLD Defined Costs FoIA
- Green Claims Manual
- Green Claims Procedures manual
- H.E. General Counsel
- Hay Bale Lorry Fire
- HE Commercial Interests ICO ref: FS50666011
- HE Commercial Interests ICO ref: FS50684952 Decision
- HE General Counsel, Multipliers & Kier Charges
- HE Seek Permission to Appeal EA/2018/0088
- HETO Vehicle Fire
- Highways England re Costs
- Highways Concerns Time-Line to 12/2016 and on …
- Highways England & ‘Transparency’
- Highways England & DfT Contacts
- Highways England & Kier Highways Lack of Transparency
- Highways England ‘DCP Rates Do NOT Exist’
- Highways England ‘singing from the same hymn sheet’
- Highways England – Request Not Vexatious (again), Info’ Not Held (again) Breach of FoIA (again)
- Highways England – So Compromised As To Be Ineffective?
- Highways England 14 Areas
- Highways England Charged £25ish
- Highways England Claim Check List
- Highways England Company Limited 09346363
- Highways England DOES Hold Sub-Threshold Information
- Highways England does not hold schedules of individual service providers’ DCP Rates
- Highways England Drives Claim Costs Up
- Highways England Fleet Vehicles 09/2018
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- Liverpool Council CEO arrested
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- N2 W3 TCB barrier – single sided (including bolts etc.)
- National Audit Office
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- National Schedule of Rates – The Components
- National Schedule of Repair Costs for Network Damage (Green Claims)
- Neil Pendlebury-Green Process
- No Confusion – DCP Rates Sought For Years
- No Information Supplied to Highways England?
- No Rates, No Transparency & No Accuracy?
- No Trace of TM VRM
- None so Blind As Those Who Will Not See
- North Yorkshire Council
- Not Vexatious So Why Obstruct?
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- Once upon a time … there was a schedule of rates
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- Rates to Highways England & Third Parties the Same
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- Report Pothole Damage
- Request to Reprice
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- Road Safety Improved?
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- s.77 Allegation with the ICO
- S09C014 £8k to £4k but overstated
- s77 FoIA Altering etc. Records with Intent to Prevent Disclosure
- s77 of the FoIA
- Sahin & Harvard
- SAR 1 of Highways England
- SAR2 & Complaints
- Schedules of DCP Rates Exist
- Schedules of DCP Rates Exist But Are Withheld
- Scheme Repairs & Traffic Management
- Seeking to Solve the Wrong Problem
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- Sharon McCarthy – Highways England
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- Sian Jones Statement 20/07/2018
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- State Enabled Exaggeration & Fraud on an Industrial Scale
- State Enabled Exaggeration on an Industrial Scale
- Stolen VRM
- Stolen VRM charged by Kier Highways
- Sub-Threshold Information
- Subrogation ruling creates a moral dilemma 2014
- Summary of Exaggeration & Fraud
- Telford and Wrekin Council
- Temp’ VRS
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- Terms & Conditions
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- TFL Conway Rates 05/2016
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- TfL Resist Supplying Information
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- The ‘Pain/Gain Share’ Deceit Timeline
- The Area 9 Claim Costs Calculation & Exaggeration
- The Blame Game
- The Collapse of Carillion
- The Cost of an AIW
- THE DANGERS OF SMART MOTORWAYS
- The Devil is in the Detail
- The Government response
- The ICO ‘too compliacted’
- The ICO – Fit for Purpose?
- The Information Confessions Office
- The Pain / Gain Share
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- The Secret Agreement
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- TM Lorry a Motorcycle
- TM Programmer Charges
- Too Expensive to Reconcile Costs
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- Transcript Information
- Transport for London
- Tribunal – Area 10 BBMM DCP Rates Not Commercially Sensitive
- Tribunal Dismisses Highways England’s ‘Vexatious’ Exemption to FoIA Request EA/2018/0088
- Tyre Related Claims
- U05B763 Appendix A & Defined Costs Request Example
- Undue Delay
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- W08C245 Operational Matter & Defined Cost TPCO Request
- West Mids Police Fiddling Figures or Fraud Frustration?
- What A Tangled Web We Weave ….
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