Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Julia Lopez and Alex Cunningham

Thursday 25th March 2021 Commons Chamber

[Julia Lopez]

We are not picking winners on the issue of facilities. The port infrastructure fund is an investment that ports do not have to make themselves, and Portsmouth has received £17 million. The hon. Gentleman may interested to know that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is undertaking a review of facilities that will be needed at border control posts, including facilities for live animals, in advance of March next year to see whether the size and scope of the facilities have changed. We will continue to engage with Portsmouth, as I have been. I have had several meetings with representatives there, but with the change in import controls, there will now be more time to deliver and build these facilities, and we hope that this time proves useful.

[Alex Cunningham (Stockton North) (Lab)]

What steps he is taking to support businesses subject to non-tariff barriers to trade with the EU.