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HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsDoes the Secretary of State not understand and accept that today he is laying bare the advice that he received—and that he acted in contravention of that advice and he lost? We…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsIt is good to see the Transport Secretary finally in his place today, after I tried and failed to bring him to the House yesterday. Instead he sent the Health Secretary as his…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsIf the hon. Gentleman really thinks that expending £33 million when the Government did not want to or need to is a sensible way forward and a sign of success, I really do not want…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsThat is not the first time the Secretary of State has put up this false argument, as if 10% of the goods flowing into this country through these ports and by this method are…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsNo, I have already let the Secretary of State intervene on this point. [Hon. Members: “Oh!”] Come on then, get it over with!05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI cannot add up? I really think that is pot calling kettle. The Secretary of State has not been able to count for years; he is costing us a fortune. Andrew Dean from law firm…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsThe hon. Lady makes a valid point. An awful lot of people are looking at these eye-watering sums and thinking about what else could benefit from such interventions. That really…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsThe right hon. Gentleman says, “This is really poor” from a sedentary position, and I agree with him: this is really, really poor. It would be unacceptable at any time, but it is…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsThe hon. and learned Lady is exactly right: it is one rule for the Tory party and another for everyone else. [ Interruption. ] No, it is not a funny issue. The right hon. and hon.…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsIn case the hon. Gentleman wants to cite my words accurately, I said that the litigation route was a peculiar way of going about investing in infrastructure. Waiting until…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsDoes my hon. Friend share my concern that the settlement may amount to an entirely fresh procurement process, and if that has not been done correctly, there is a real risk of yet…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsThe hon. and learned Lady is doing a brilliant job of exposing the facade that has been put up to excuse this reprehensible behaviour, but is the bottom line not that the…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsThe point about the Transport Secretary’s intervention in his other lives is well illustrated by his attitude to judicial review. He did not like people taking the Government to…05 Mar 2019HANSARDEurotunnel: PaymentOnce again, the Transport Secretary is not in his place to answer a question directed to him. His disregard for taxpayers and this House is clear. On Friday he reached a £33…04 Mar 2019HANSARDEurotunnel: PaymentOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek your guidance. This is now the second time that I have tabled an urgent question asking the Transport Secretary to come to the House and…04 Mar 2019HANSARDEurotunnel: Payment(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport to make a statement on the payment of £33 million to Eurotunnel over no-deal ferry contracts.04 Mar 2019HANSARD FlybmiIt will not have escaped anybody’s attention that the Transport Secretary is sitting on the Treasury Bench yet has not come to this House to make a statement. He seeks to hide…18 Feb 2019HANSARD FlybmiTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport to make a statement on airline Flybmi going into administration.18 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: PortsPoor, very poor. The Secretary of State is, presumably, simply never wrong, but what about the timetabling mess on the trains, the east coast bail out, multiple transport and…14 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EU: PortsOn 8 January, the Secretary of State told the House that no public money was used in the Seaborne Freight contract, yet the National Audit Office says that £800,000 of taxpayers’…14 Feb 2019