HL Deb 03 May 1985 vol 463 c520WA
Lord Kennet

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What estimates have been made and how have they been derived of the nature of the shipping that will be using the Dover Strait in the next hundred years.

Lord Brabazon of Tara

No estimates have been made, for the purpose of theInvitation to Promoters of a Channel Fixed Link, of the volume of shipping using the Dover Strait in the future. The guidelines reflect, in so far as it is relevant, the judgment of the Government's professional advisers on the nature, speed, displacement and routing of that traffic.