06/01/2020 ICO rejects Highway England’s exemption: In 2016 the Chief Executive Officer of Highway England, Jim O’Sullivan’, wrote:  ‘Thanks for your note. I also want to ensure that drivers only…

In some Highways England Areas, if the repair cost following Damage to Crown Property (DCP) is: over £10,000, Highways England is billed by Kier and it is the Authority who…

‘Transparency, in a business or governance context, is honesty and openness. Transparency and accountability are generally considered the two main pillars of good corporate governance.‘ (source) In 2015 we submitted…

3 years ago … November 2016, Jim O’Sullivan Highways England’s CEO: ‘Thanks for your note. I also want to ensure that drivers only pay appropriately for the damage they do…

It is troubling to have someone deem a FoIA request ‘vexatious’ but this is the approach Highways England adopted when I sought Damage to Crown Property (DCP) rates in 2017. …

‘The purpose of building a shoulder is that in the event of an emergency or breakdown, a motorist can pull into the shoulder to get out of the flow of…

Rates that were the subject of ‘a lot of effort’ by the Authority in late 2016 and in respect of which we wrote in 2017, are finally (2019) being considered…

Highway England state none of their ASC (contracts) has a schedule of defined costs. 8/04/2019 A FoIA request @ WDTK received the reply: As none of the ASCs contain schedules of…

2012 to 2019 BBMM Area 10 claims saw the contractor use CECA rates when billing Third Parties (drivers, fleets, hauliers & insurers) on claims under £10,000 but ‘mates rates’ (far…

13/06/2019 – Highways England again claims ‘post-Carney’ in response to a FoIA request, there are no DCP (damage to Crown property) rates for an ASC (contract): ‘As stated in our…