UK Trade with EU: Import Controls

(asked on 11th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the annual gross cost of checks on goods from the European Economic Area; and what estimate he has made of the (a) staffing costs and (b) infrastructure maintenance costs of those checks after December 2020.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 24th February 2020

No cross-departmental assessment is held on the annual cost of checking goods from the EEA.

The Border Delivery Group will work closely with all relevant departments and the border industry to ensure that the necessary staffing and infrastructure is in place for new border controls at the end of the transition period.

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