Last month the toll on the bridges across the Severn estuary in the UK fell to £5.60 from £6.70 for car drivers, £11.20 from £13.40 for van operators and £16.70 from £20.00 for Large Goods Vehicles. This was a result of the control of the bridges coming back into public ownership and becoming the responsibility of the government-owned body, Highways England. This has allowed the toll to fall by the level of VAT.

Although this will have little direct impact on business, as they could reclaim the VAT anyway, it does mark the start of a process that will see tolls remover altogether on these crossings by the end of 2018.