National Highways has been prevented from having their cake and eating it.  The latest decision calls into question the advice they are receiving and what faith can be placed in…

In 2020, after years of National Highways misrepresenting to Tribunals, the ICO and us that Damage to Crown Property (DCP) rates did not exist, the figures were disclosed. Not just…

In 2021, the ICO supported our position; information held by Kier Highways Ltd was ‘held on behalf of’ (HoBo) National Highways.  The Authority disagreed and 13/09/2021, submitted an appeal to…

In 2018, HHJ Godsmark considered a claim made by Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald (BBMM), then National Highways Area 10 contractor, against an insurer whose driver caused damage to the Strategic…

Following a 2020 Freedom of Information (FoIA) request for Kier Highways billing information, ‘CBD’s in Original Format with Associated Schedules of DCP rates‘, National Highways claimed not to hold the…

Attempts to acquire a KPMG report critical of Kier Highways, have been thwarted by an Information Tribunal.  The ‘Project Verde’ audit, which followed allegations of contract non-compliance and exaggerating claims…

Below is the DfT’s anonymous response to our concerns National Highways: permitted (and are permitting) some contractors to abuse their position and present inflated costs to drivers, fleets, hauliers or…

23/01/2022 Kier named in a Daily Mail article about Smart motorway firms being probed: Separate papers also show that workers employed by the main contractor, Kier, for another scheme ‘manipulated’…

Work on motorways that are missing the customary hard shoulder will be suspended, the government has confirmed.  The families of people killed on smart motorways are said to have welcomed…

First it was Kier Highways claiming that their 10/2015 profiteering process was agreed with insurers.  One company they named denied any knowledge of such an arrangement. Then, 06/2019, having launched…