{"id":12751,"date":"2019-05-09T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/government-was-warned-about-brexit-ferry-payouts\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:03:32","slug":"government-was-warned-about-brexit-ferry-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/government-was-warned-about-brexit-ferry-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Grayling Under Pressure Due To Compensation Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling should be bracing himself for more awkward questions in the coming weeks after it was announced that the Department for Transport&#8217;s (DfT) accounting office had informed the Government that there was a &#8220;high likelihood&#8221; of a Eurotunnel legal challenge over the now cancelled contracts awarded to Brittany Ferries, DFDS and Seaborne Freight.<\/p>\n<p>This little debacle has added \u00a333m to the Brexit bill through an out of court settlement and that&#8217;s before P&amp;O has its say. With there being little chance of recouping the full amount from reselling the capacity pre-booked the final bill with P&amp;O could end up being over \u00a3100m.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12781\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12781\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/PO-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/PO-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/PO-768x306.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/PO-1024x408.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/PO-750x299.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/PO.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Editorial credit: Marc Bruxelle \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not a good day at the office Mr Grayling.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-48117366\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on P&amp;O <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-48063672\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling should be bracing himself for more awkward questions in the coming weeks after it was announced that the Department for Transport&#8217;s (DfT) accounting office had informed the Government that there was a &#8220;high likelihood&#8221; of a Eurotunnel legal challenge over the now cancelled contracts awarded to Brittany Ferries, DFDS and Seaborne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5],"tags":[75,1193,1194],"class_list":["post-12751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-uk-news","tag-brexit","tag-chris-grayling","tag-po"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12782,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions\/12782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}