The Department and the Highways Agency have undertaken work to assess the viability of a multi-purpose lorry park in Kent which would have included an area that would be used for Operation Stack purposes. However, the initial findings suggest that there is a large gap between potential income and costs.
Separately there have been discussions with Kent county council over the short and longer term solutions to the problems around Operation Stack. The council are in the process of investigating potential off-road sites for parking up lorries and will be advising me of their conclusions in due course.