Department for Transport and Kent County Council, Dover Harbour Board

  • The proposed subsidy is a grant to the Dover Harbour Board (“DHB”) to implement the Dover Border Access Improvement Project (the Project) which aims to improve infrastructure and reduce the incidence and extent of congestion on the strategic and local road network. The value of the grant is £45 million.
  • Our key takeaways from the Subsidy Advice Unit (SAU) report are:
    • Where a grant funding agreement will be used, ensure it is finalised before a principles assessment is carried out.
    • When considering policy objectives and counterfactuals, ensure the focus is on the subsidy and not the wider project the subsidy seeks to support.
    • Sufficient evidence should be provided to demonstrate there is a market failure, indicating what the counterfactual would be, and ensuring proportionality is properly demonstrated.

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