Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to help support the road haulage of meat products following the implementation of the EU Entry-Exit System.

The government continue to engage the European Commission and member states, and have been working particularly closely with France, to understand their plans for the progressive rollout of EES and to ask for flexible and pragmatic implementation to minimise delays for passengers and freight.

We are also supporting ports and carriers to make sure they have the right technology and processes in place to make EES registration as smooth as possible.

The government have been assured by Kent and Medway Resilience Forum that comprehensive traffic management plans are in place to monitor and respond to any disruption caused by EES registrations at the juxtaposed ports in Kent.