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HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsTherein lies the heart of this debate. The Opposition are saying that the Secretary of State should not have taken this action at all. They are attacking him for taking…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI have given way quite a lot, so I will make some progress. The Secretary of State has worked hard in the national interest to make sure that contingency plans, once authorised,…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI thank my hon. Friend for making exactly the point that I am coming to. I set out how we needed to invest to be ready on day one, deal or no deal; as I argued at the time, to get…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI do not represent the tunnel, which is in Folkestone and Hythe; I represent Dover. However, I have been keen to press the Secretary of State to ensure that Dover receives similar…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. This Government have invested substantially in transport. I believe we need more investment in roads to the ports, as has been set out in…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsThe Labour party failed completely to invest in many things, including border infrastructure, when it was last in power, and it has not been serious about border security and…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI congratulate the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Alan Brown) on securing this debate. He has been far more efficient and effective than the official Opposition, who did…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsThe hon. Gentleman is making a facile point. My point is simply that the Secretary of State, confronted with opportunism, has made the best of a bad job to make sure that the…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry Contractsrose —05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsAlthough I do not agree with the action that Eurotunnel took, it has to be said that this £33 million is clearly being invested in border infrastructure. I would like to see and…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI thank my right hon. Friend for giving way one more time. He knows that the port of Dover could see the legal risk of the process that he had undertaken, but decided to act in…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI have been reading the NAO report with considerable interest, and it says: “Over the summer of 2018, government departments stepped up their contingency preparations for no…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way one more time. I am glad to see Scottish MPs taking an interest in the matter of trade across the English channel. I am looking again at…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI am sure the hon. Gentleman has, like me, read with interest the National Audit Office detailed report into this. It goes through the decision making in the Department for…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsI have listened to what the hon. Gentleman has been saying with great interest. He will understand that, as I represent the constituency of Dover, this subject is very dear to my…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry Contractsrose —05 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. Will the Chancellor tell the House how many people in my Dover and Deal constituency, since 2010, are either paying no income tax whatsoever, thanks to Government policies, or…05 Mar 2019HANSARDNo Deal EU Exit: Job LossesDoes not this underline the importance of fine-tuning the deal so that we can jettison the backstop and use existing technology and EU law to take forward the innovative Malthouse…05 Mar 2019HANSARD EU Exit Preparations: Ferry ContractsWill the hon. Gentleman give way?05 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUIn recent days, a number of statements have been made by several different Ministers that have left me somewhat puzzled about, first, Her Majesty’s Government’s policy and,…27 Feb 2019