Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to improve the information and advice it provides to hauliers and businesses affected when operation of the port of Calais is disrupted.

Highways England has placed additional monitoring and variable messaging signs equipment across the motorways and major trunk road of Kent. This enables both Kent Police and Highways England to dynamically manage traffic flows and provide up to date messaging for drivers.

This is enabled by additional temporary mobile Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) which has been deployed on M2, M20, A20, A229, A249 and A299 to supplement Highways England’s existing cameras. Sensors have been deployed at strategic points on the M20 and at the contingency site at Manston Airfield for lorry counting purposes.