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1091063

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Eurotunnel: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government's financial settlement with Eurotunnel was designated under the category of payments for preparations in the event of the UK leaving the EU without an agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	233638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s financial settlement with Eurotunnel is being financially categorised as part of the overall preparations for the UK leaving the EU.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 21/03/2019 15:08:15 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1091406

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Eurotunnel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what role his Department has in the selection and prioritisation of projects listed under paragraph 1 (a) to (f) of the Eurotunnel obligations under the Government settlement agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	234284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The principal role of the Government has been to agree the specific areas of expenditure, ensuring that they have wider security and infrastructure resilience benefits. It is for Eurotunnel, not Government, to determine the selection and prioritisation of projects. Government will, consistent with the Settlement Agreement, consider how the expenditure is committed or expended. If there are concerns about whether it is being used for a permitted purpose it would fully exercise its rights under the dispute resolution process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 22/03/2019 12:33:50 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1091407

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Eurotunnel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the process is for parties to agree additional or alternate projects as set out in paragraph 1, sub section (f) of the Eurotunnel obligations under government settlement agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	234285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government fully expects the initial commitment of expenditure to be on the projects identified in paragraphs 1 (a) to (e). It expects to discuss and agree any other projects under 1 (f) as part of its ongoing engagement with Eurotunnel.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 22/03/2019 12:37:59 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1091408

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Eurotunnel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps have been taken to ensure that projects that will be undertaken by Eurotunnel under the terms of the Government settlement agreement are new projects and not projects or measures that Eurotunnel would otherwise have committed to using separate funding streams.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	234286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Settlement Agreement does not limit the expenditure to specifically new projects. However, the settlement, by requiring expenditure on security and infrastructure resilience, secures specific commitments by Eurotunnel to spending on these areas – securing the benefits that such improvements provide. The money cannot be spent on routine maintenance or operational costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 22/03/2019 12:42:54 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1091409

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Eurotunnel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funds are recoverable to the Department from the Government settlement agreement if Eurotunnel do not spend the £33 million within a 45-month period as set out in paragraph (3) of the agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	234287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>If Eurotunnel do not commit to spend the full £33 million within the agreed timeframe then they will be in breach of the conditions in the Settlement Agreement. The Government would then be able to take appropriate action, including action through the Courts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 22/03/2019 12:46:13 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1091410

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Eurotunnel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what happens to any sum of money not spent in equal parts within 21 months of receipt of each instalment as set out in paragraph (3) of the Government settlement agreement with Eurotunnel.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	234288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>If Eurotunnel do not commit to spend an instalment payment within the agreed timeframe then they will be in breach of the conditions in the Settlement Agreement. The Government would then be able to take appropriate action, including action through the Courts.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 22/03/2019 12:57:29 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1091411

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Eurotunnel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the financial risks to his Department are if agreed projects carried out under the Eurotunnel obligations under the government settlement agreement overspend their allocated budget.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	234289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>None. The Settlement Agreement is clear that there are no circumstances in which the sums paid to Eurotunnel will exceed £33 million.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 26/03/2019 14:14:36 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1091412

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Eurotunnel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions the Government has held with Eurotunnel on the appointment of external auditors, separate to Eurotunnel’s statutory auditors, for reporting purposes as set out in paragraph 50 of the government settlement agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	234290
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The Settlement Agreement was agreed on 28<sup>th</sup> February 2019 and the first payment under it has not yet been made. As such, Eurotunnel have not started preparing a report on how that money has been committed or spent, the first of which is due on or before 31<sup>st</sup> March 2020. The Settlement Agreement sets out the steps Eurotunnel are obliged to take in preparing that report – including using their statutory auditors (or auditors to be agreed by the parties). The Government intends to agree the audit arrangements with Eurotunnel well in advance of the production of the first Project Report.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 26/03/2019 14:28:40 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1093429

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Brittany Ferries and DFDS
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2019 to Question 233640, whether the three year settlement agreement and possible project listings with Eurotunnel procures the same vital freight capacity as that procured with DFDS and Brittany Ferries; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	235760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>The settlement agreement secured the vital freight capacity that Government has purchased from DFDS and Brittany Ferries, and therefore the unhindered supply of medicines for our NHS, by removing a legal risk of the contracts with these companies being declared ineffective by the Court. The agreement itself does not procure additional freight capacity, nor was it ever intended to. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, to ensure value for money, Eurotunnel has agreed that the entirety of the settlement sum will be used on projects to improve security, traffic flow and infrastructure resilience around the Channel tunnel site.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 27/03/2019 13:43:15 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1093430

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Brittany Ferries and DFDS
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2019 to Question 233640, what vital freight capacity has been procured with DFDS and Brittany Ferries; and what timeframe that additional freight capacity covers.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	235761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>The contracts with DFDS and Brittany Ferries add approximately 7% to existing short Strait ro-ro capacity. They cover the period to 30 September 2019. The majority of contracted capacity is initially reserved for category 1 priority traffic.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 27/03/2019 13:49:08 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown