Question follow-through · 107579
Lower Thames Crossing: Public Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether publicly funded works on the Lower Thames Crossing will commence after a Full Business Case has been produced and approved.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether publicly funded works on the Lower Thames Crossing will commence after a Full Business Case has been produced and approved.
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2026
Answer published
Publicly funded construction enabling works have already commenced north and south of the River Thames. These include ground works to create haul roads, construction of site compounds, utility works, ecological and archaeological works and extensive pre-c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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