“I’m not sure you have charted a plan in what you’ve said”, Barry told Steve Barclay, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, as he outlined the “catastrophic failure” of Thames Water.
In the second half of the same session, Barry put to the Minister that “there is a huge descrepancy in the number of checks you think will be required at Sevington and that they believe will be required at Sevington”. 1.1 million to be specific. This was part of Barry’s line of questioning on the operation of Britain’s ports.