Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government why meetings arranged with relevant councils in Kent on the planned White Cliffs Inland Border Facility have been cancelled; why no such meetings on this planned facility have been held since March; and why the reasons for the cancellation of these meetings have not been explained to local residents and councillors.

Engagement has continued with local representative on White Cliffs. Some specific meetings have been cancelled or postponed, due, for instance, to the normal rules on public engagements in a pre-election period.

Activities on the White Cliffs project have, in any case, slowed down because of a Cabinet Office-led review of the Inland Border Facilities in Kent to ensure that modelling and costings were fully explored for any option. We delayed holding a further meeting until there was a substantive update to provide to stakeholders with.