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Local authorities are accountable to the public. It is difficult to identify any other verifier that could hold that accountability and be held to account.
If the costs are not covered in the environmental statement, the business case will have to be updated at some point to take account of that. The promoter will be aware that we are trying to ensure that the business case covers in its costings all the issues on which we want further information.