Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much infrastructure funding was (a) requested by and (b) granted to the Port of Dover for the construction of new passport control booths since 2020.

In 2020, Port of Dover applied for £34m from the Port Infrastructure Fund, but were outside the scope of the scheme. Kent County Council has been provisionally awarded £45 million from the Levelling Up Fund to support additional border control booths, extra capacity in buffer zones and resequencing the order of controls at Port of Dover. The Government is in regular contact with the Port of Dover on border pressures and infrastructure.