UK ministers take control of £10bn Lower Thames Crossing
by Phillip Inman from Environment | The Guardian on (#70PV1)
Exclusive: National Highways Agency stripped of oversight with project handed to DfT amid Labour government drive for growth
Ministers have stripped the government's road-building agency of responsibility for a 10bn tunnel under the River Thames amid a drive by Keir Starmer's cabinet to take tight control over important infrastructure projects for fear of cost overruns and delays.
Oversight of the Lower Thames Crossing - the UK's largest planned infrastructure project - has been taken away from National Highways and handed to the Department for Transport (DfT).
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