Ferries: Freight

(asked on 18th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2020 to Question 51908 on Ferries: Freight, if he will publish the names of the external experts that provided (a) legal, (b) technical and (c) financial advice on the design of the Public Service Obligation Agreements; and what the cost to the public purse was of that advice.


Answered by
Kelly Tolhurst Portrait
Kelly Tolhurst
This question was answered on 30th June 2020

The Government is providing up to £35.2m in funding to maintain capacity for critical goods for 9 weeks across 16 critical freight routes. During the height of the crisis, we believed it was important to keep this vital flow of critical goods such as medicines and food into and across the UK.

The providers of expert advice are as follows:

  1. Legal advice - Slaughter & May

  2. Technical advice - Costain

  3. Financial advice - PwC

The amounts spent on the external experts to date are as follows:

  1. Slaughter & May - £394,048

  2. Costain - £188,676

  3. PwC - £178,058

These figures exclude VAT.

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