Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what physical checks and customs requirements currently take place for goods from the EU directly entering ports in Great Britain.

Border Force is committed to enforcing customs controls on goods from the EU and to detecting those who would attempt to evade controls.

Border Force deploys to risk using tested, but continually assessed, intelligence and targeting techniques. Border Force does not publish information relating to the number of physical checks carried out. Doing so would publicise operational practices which would be used to assist in the evasion of customs controls and compromise Border security.