Humber Bridge: Tolls

(asked on 2nd November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse would be of abolishing fees on the Humber Bridge.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 8th November 2017

The tolls on the Humber Bridge were introduced to help pay for the costs of constructing the Bridge, which opened in 1981. Construction was financed through a loan from the Government of the day.

In 2012, the present Government wrote off £150m of the £332m debt In order to reduce tolls and encourage use of the Bridge. Since then, the number of vehicles using the Bridge has increased significantly.

In 2015, the Humber Bridge Board refinanced the remaining debt of £172m with a Public Works Board Loan. The Government has not made an estimate of the costs of abolishing tolls on the Humber Bridge, since the operation and financing of the remaining debt of the Humber Bridge is the responsibility for the Board and its constituent authorities.

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