Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to avoid severe congestion at the port of Portsmouth in the event that the UK and EU do not reach an agreement on their future trading relations at the end of the transition period.
The Department for Transport officials have been working closely with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Resilience Forum (LRF) to ensure that the LRF has the necessary traffic analysis and £2.5m resource funding to mitigate against potential congestion at the port of Portsmouth at the end of the transition period.