Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to increase the number of checks on vehicles arriving through the Port of Dover.
Border Force deployed additional resources to combat the increase in opportunistic migrant activity that followed the strike at Calais by French workers, including deployment of additional sniffer dog and contractor freight searching capability to deal with the anticipated risk of migrants targeting slow moving traffic at the juxtaposed ports in Northern France. We have also deployed additional resource to enable enhanced screening at Dover port of both freight and tourist vehicles.