Exclusive: Ministers 'water down' National Roads Fund plans

Dom Browne

05 December 2016

The Government does not intend to legislate to create the National Roads Fund from 2020, Transport Network understands, in what some say is a watering down of the plans.

Senior Whitehall sources suggested the original idea was to legislate, and this retreat could suggest a weakening of the commitment in the same way the new government backtracked on making the National Infrastructure Commission a statutory body.

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