Eurotunnel: Payment
Debate between Graham Stringer and Matt Hancock(5 years, 8 months ago)
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Matt Hancock
Yes, I would be very happy to talk to my hon. Friend about that business.
Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton) (Lab)
This expenditure is only necessary because of the sheer incompetence of the Secretary of State for Transport. I have sat and listened to him in this Chamber and listened to him in the Transport Committee, and after every fiasco his defence is that it has not cost the Exchequer any money. The fact is that this has cost the Exchequer £33 million. Has he not run out of runway and should he not resign?
Matt Hancock
No, the decision to settle this case in order to provide for the unhindered supply of medicines, which I am sure that, like me, the hon. Gentleman, agrees is important, was the correct judgment and the correct decision, because we need to make sure that we keep people safe.