Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many ferry freight routes in addition to existing routes will operate under the contracts recently awarded by his Department to (a) DFDS, (b) Seaborne Freight and (c) Brittany Ferries for roll-on roll-off freight ferry services; and if he will publish each UK port from which those services can be operated.

I refer the Honourable Member to the Written Statement laid by my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State on 7 January.