Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of Operation Transmission on the operation of the Port of Portsmouth in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

The Department has been liaising with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Resilience Forum (LRF) for some time, and has recently shared with them new planning assumptions and analysis of the impact of a no deal Brexit on Portsmouth International Port. It is now for the LRF to consider how this impacts on their Operation Transmission traffic management plan and whether any amendments are required.