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DfT TAG set for significant changes on Discount Rate and Uncertainty

Peter Stonham
30 April 2026
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 The Department for Transport’s TASM division has signalled upcoming changes to how uncertainty is to be treated in its Transport Analysis Guidance, along with introduction of a new discount rate sensitivity test, which appear potentially significant, and may raise debate amongst practitioners with diverging views on both issues.

The moves have been revealed alongside the confirmed implementation of a previously signalled batch of changes to the TAG guidance suite, other changes in...

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