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  The lorry toll has already been consulted and agreed and will be charged on all HGVs using all UK roads. UK registered vehicles would then have a balancing reduction to their road tax. This toll will raise an overall net £23.5m which will all go to central Govt funds. The other road tolls being proposed are to raise funds on new road infrastructure to pay for that infrastructure and provide a profit to the private companies which have built it and a dividend to Govt. both regional and national.
  
  Port road tolls have been tried before in other parts of the UK and, to date, all such schemes have been successfully challenged by freight associations and other road users and subsequently withdrawn.
  
  DPPT have not taken a stance against road tolling, merely taken a position, on the basis of experience elsewhere in the UK and on the extant legal practicalities, that such a method is not currently a viable way of providing funding for port infrastructure development and more general regeneration activity in a port mutualisation project that needs to offer a perpetual solution to ownership and governance of the port today.
  
  The DPPT model does not rely on potential, perhaps yes, perhaps no, changes to general or specific legislation to be viable. Had it done so it would rightfully have been laughed off stage as impractical and superficial. It is also highly unlikely that Government would have modified its policy towards Trust Ports for an alternative that required significant new legislation and modifications to existing laws in order for it to be viable.

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