Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the (a) Dublin-Liverpool crossing and (b) consequences of those effects on the port of Liverpool of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

In general terms, my Department would not expect there to be a major effect on the Port of Liverpool of leaving the EU without a deal, nor therefore, through such impacts, on the regional or national economy.