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Peter, I know full well about the Ports Act 1991, and it doesn't say that Trust ports have to be privatised.
But that if one of them wants to go private, it can make a request to do so.
DHB did, there was a public consultation, Gov. said no to privatisation.
As said in my previous post, for the Government to decide that the Port of Dover must be privatised, they'd have to change the Law.
There are two distinct sectors of topic now: one is, how should the Port be managed in the future.
The other, how should local regeneration be made possible through Port revenues.
I've noted that DPPT want to take over control of both the Port and local regeneration, possibly as a franchising business.
As for my participation in the debate, my points have been made clear, there's nothing to add to them.
It's now basically a choice of deciding between no revenues for local regeneration, or a DPPT solution for the district to receive a one-off payment through borrowed money plus £1million a year dividends for five years, followed by an unknown annual sum thereafter, all of which would need be paid back with the interest by the Port and its economic stakeholders,
OR, a separate public revenue solution through a specific port toll, as I have proposed, which would be much greater than £1 million a year in dividends.
I've made my proposal, others need to make the decision.
There is really nothing else for me to add to this.