Dear Graeme Bickerdike

Thank you for your request relating to Queensbury Tunnel/HRE budgets dated
21/03/2022. 

The due date for issuing a response is 20/04/2022.

Please feel free to contact our team if you have any queries quoting
FOI/3417 in any future communications

Kind regards

Andrea Bartlett

You can make new FOI requests and review published responses by
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Dear Mr Bickerdike

Freedom of Information Request – Queensbury Tunnel

I am writing to confirm that we have now completed our search for the
information, which you requested on 21^st March 2022.

Your Request - Please provide me with copies of all
correspondence/documentation exchanged between National Highways and
Jacobs/AMCO-Giffen, and internally amongst National Highways’ own staff,
on the subject of Queensbury Tunnel (and related issues) since 5 January
2022. This should include - but is not limited to - all emails/electronic
messages plus attachments, letters, proposals, reports, drawings, plans
and Compensation Event Forms, together with any changes/additions to the
abandonment project’s Compensation Event and Risk/Early Warning registers.

Our response - I am writing to advise you that we do hold the information
relevant to your request, but regret to inform you of my decision not to
disclose this information. These records engage the EIR exception 12(4)(e)
which relate to communications between parties within the same
organisation and EIR exception 12(5)(d) for information whose disclosure
is likely to prejudice the course of justice.  The “course of justice”
includes legal proceedings, law enforcement, criminal investigations and
proceedings.

Your Request - Can you also please tell me the HRE budget figures for
2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23, with sub-totals for Major Works, Minor
Works, Inspections/Examinations and other (admin/management etc) costs.

Our response – The table below gives the budget figures as requested. We
do not split major works and minor works in our budget.

┌───────────────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│   │ 2020/21 │ 2021/22 │ 2022/23 │
├───────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ Transfers │ 0 │ £0.148m │ £0.26m │
├───────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ Examinations │ £1.8m │ £1.815m │ £1.44m │
├───────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ Grants │ £0.21m │ £0.46m │ £0.21m │
├───────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ Works │ £9.07m │ £8.987m │ £4.838m │
├───────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ Professional Services │ £1.51m │ £1.475m │ £2.04m │
├───────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ Total │ £12.48m │ £13.155m │ £8.788m │
└───────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴─────────┘

If you are not satisfied with your response you may ask for an internal
review within 40 working days of receiving the response, by replying to
this email. You can learn more about the internal review process [1]here.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted [2]here or via
the address below -

            Information Commissioner’s Office

            Wycliffe House

            Water Lane

            Wilmslow

            Cheshire

            SK9 5AF

Please remember to quote reference number FOI/3417 in any future
communications about this response.

Yours sincerely

Fiona Smith

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