FOI release

LTC private funding

Case reference EIR2025/00347

Received 18 February 2025

Published 17 September 2025

Request

Please can you send me any correspondence between Lower Thames Crossing executive director Matt Palmer and/or National Highways chief executive Nick Harris and relevant Department for Transport ministers regarding the intention to attract private funding for the development of the Lower Thames Crossing (i.e. anything to do with who will be approached, what funding models could be used, how this will inform the construction approach, why private funding is the optimal way forward for the project.)

Response

Information not held

We have checked our records, and I have established that the information you have requested for any correspondence between Matt Palmer and/or Nick Harris and relevant Department of Transport ministers regarding the intention to attract private funding is not held. It therefore falls under Regulation 12(4)(a) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004

 

Advice and Assistance 

National Highways provided the Secretary of State for Transport information on private finance models for Lower Thames Crossing on the 27 February 2025, this information can be found here.

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