Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:23 pm on 8 January 2019.
Baroness Sugg
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
3:23,
8 January 2019
My Lords, we are confident that we will be able to provide the facilities to carry goods to and from for the 90% of the procurement contract. Should the contract with Seaborne fail we will of course look to make alternative measures. I thank my noble friend for his comments. As I said, the Department for Transport is making a number of contingency plans in the event of no deal. I am certainly not saying that no deal is an ideal situation or indeed one that we want to be in. We are trying to avoid it through getting agreement to the Prime Minister’s deal.