Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2026 to Question 111444, whether her Department applies an economic test when determining whether costs are disproportionate to benefits for the purposes of assessing economic reasonableness under paragraph 4.5.12 of the draft amended National Policy Statement for Ports.

The process of determining whether costs are disproportionate to benefits does itself amount to an economic test.