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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Bristol Port Company (1 October 2019)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the criteria was for deciding that Bristol Port needed £100,000 to prepare for the UK exiting the EU.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

Answer

The Port of Bristol was a successful applicant to the recent £10 million Port Infrastructure Connectivity and Resilience (PIRC) fund. The objectives of the fund are to help ports deliver contingency upgrades to enhance their capacity, maintain freight flow and improve overall resilience.

The PIRC fund was run as a fair and open competition for all English ports, whose project bids were then assessed against the objectives of the fund, and key criteria such as delivery date, capacity and capability, project delivery and longer term benefits, alongside key legal elements such as a state aid compliance.

There were 16 successful applicants to the fund receiving grants ranging from £100,000 to £1 million.


Answered by:
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative)
7 October 2019

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