Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to take steps to reduce queues of HGVs at Dover.

We continue to work closely with Port of Dover and National Highways to understand common causes of delays and seek robust mitigations to reduce them.

Port of Dover operates a turn up and go service. There is a well-established Traffic Access Protocol which is operated by Port of Dover and National Highways and this manages any queue which enables HGVs to be held on one lane of the A20, allowing all other traffic to flow freely. National Highways monitor the queue lengths and work with the Port of Dover to actively reduce them.