Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) award and (b) cancellation of the contract between his Department and Seaborne Freight.

Combined costs of external legal, financial and project assurance advice on all three freight contracts including legal advice up to the end of December 2018 were approximately £800,000. Subsequent costs up to termination cannot yet be derived as contracts are still live and invoices pending.