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    Hi Howard, the DHB will not necessarily need to put in another transfer request. In fact the current chairman has said that they are not going to for now. The Minister, Stephen Hammond, has been tasked with sorting out the future of the port so that it delivers the community involvement and benefit that the Government has made it quite clear that it wants. His first move has been to require DHB to examine all the options in the expectation that they will do the right thing voluntarily. If this approach does not deliver, then he has delegated powers under the 1964 Harbours and 1991 Ports Acts or 2011 Public Bodies Act sufficient to the task of ensuring that the future ownership and governance of the port is the one that the Government wants.

    I'm as impatient for all of this to be sorted out for good as the next man, possibly more so as I have to spend at least 16 hours of my spare time every week toing and froing from Westminster, writing papers, etc., but there is a process to follow which one way ends in 6 weeks of public consultation and representations and if it goes another way ends in 24 weeks of Parliamentary scrutiny and a Ministerial order.

    I don't know about anyone else, but I find the whole thing far from farcical, the future good of Dover is far too important.

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