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The Balfour Beatty and Skanska-led joint venture responsible for the 拢6.2bn M25 PFI has shelved a programme to replace concrete sections of the motorway while it investigates what caused its repairs to fail last Friday, damaging 25 vehicles.

The joint venture will also face a financial penalty for the 24-hour closure of three lanes of the motorway between junction nine and ten on Friday.

The Highways Agency confirmed the Connect Plus joint venture, which also includes Atkins and Egis, is paid based on performance, including keeping the road available to traffic. When part of the road is not available, payment is reduced.

Connect Plus was main contractor on overnight roadworks that 鈥渇ailed to set鈥� last Friday.

The closure caused traffic chaos, prompting road minister John Hayes to demand an urgent report from the Highways Agency into what had happened.

In an statement this week, Connect Plus said: 鈥淲e are continuing our full investigation into what happened on the anti-clockwise M25 near Leatherhead last Friday morning.

鈥淲e know that a section of the carriageway failed to set properly following planned overnight maintenance. Similar planned repairs have been stopped while investigations into the cause of the failure are continuing; at this stage it is too early to speculate.鈥�

Following the failure Connect Plus repaired three sections of the M25 that had deteriorated using 鈥渜uicker setting materials鈥�, enabling the motorway to fully reopen in the early hours of Saturday morning.

A Highways Agency spokesperson said overnight maintenance was using 鈥渁 tried and tested technique that has been used since 2012鈥�.

The resulting closed lanes caused major traffic chaos and tailbacks.

AA president Edmund King has called for an inquiry into what went wrong, after describing the M25 as the 鈥渞oad to hell鈥� last Friday.

The Connect Plus consortium secured a 拢6.2bn 30-year PFI deal to upgrade and maintain the M25 in 2009.