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Debate between Lord Grayling and Angela Crawley(5 years, 8 months ago)
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Chris Grayling
It is very simple: the contract was conditional on Seaborne Freight producing a reference from Arklow, which it did.
Angela Crawley
The director general for the Department for Transport said yesterday that it was no longer possible to complete procurement and operation for any large amount of further capacity across the channel by either sea or rail before the end of March. The Secretary of State’s handling of this issue means that there are now no plans in place for an alternative and a 10% shortfall in capacity. How does he plan to resolve this latest disaster?
Chris Grayling
The hon. Lady clearly was not listening on Monday, when I indicated that we had options in contracts to provide additional capacity on longer sea routes to replace any that we might have had on the short sea routes.