Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to recommendation 9 of his Department's Trust Port Study, published on 26 May 2016, what (a) guidance and (b) additional assistance his Department plans to provide to trust ports for periodic reviews of their model.

The Department for Transport will implement the Trust Port Study’s recommendations over the course of 2016 and 2017. The Secretary of State is subject to Parliamentary scrutiny. As part of implementing the recommendations, the Department is preparing revised good governance guidance for trust ports. The intention is for this to include guidance on how major trust ports should carry out periodic reviews of their strategic objectives. Trust ports are expected to carry out such reviews using their own resources.