Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has (a) received and (b) made to his French counterpart on the effect on road freight of recent strike action in France.

Transport Ministers and the Department for Transport had received no written representations on this subject, as of 31^st May 2016. The effect on road freight of the recent strike action has not been specifically raised by UK Transport Ministers with French counterparts.