Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has (a) made any payments and (b) awarded any grants to (i) P&O Ferries and (ii) DP World since March 2022.

The Department for Transport has not made any payments for services nor awarded any grants directly to either P&O ferries or DP World since March 2022.

The Department has however made the final payments under the Cabinet Office’s Port Infrastructure Fund to Port of Cairnryan, owned by P&O Ferries, and to London Gateway Ltd, which is also owned by DP World. These grants were originally allocated in 2020, and no further payments are expected.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has made a small number of bookings and payments via their contracted travel agent which involved using P&O ferries, for official travel to perform their operational duties. The total cost of this travel was £1,113.