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Written question asked by Stephen Gethins (Scottish National Party) on Monday, 8 September 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 11 September 2025 (named day). It was answered by Dan Tomlinson (Labour) on Friday, 12 September 2025 on behalf of the Treasury.

Inland Border Facilities

Question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse of (a) building border inspection facilities, (b) operating border inspection facilities annually since construction and (c) in total was since the UK left the EU.

Answer

Customs infrastructure at Inland Border Facilities (IBFs) is essential to protect the UK by ensuring risk-based checks on goods entering and leaving the country can take place. The cost to HMRC of building and setting up both enduring and temporary sites was £89m.

The annual cost to HMRC for the operation of IBFs is £32m.

The total cost since leaving the EU (up to 31st March 25) was £495m, this included £20m for decommissioning costs at temporary sites.

In April 2025, Government announced amendments to existing legislation to require all approved border locations to provide and fund their own customs infrastructure. This includes border locations which currently benefit from Government provision of IBFs.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
75655
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Expenditure Brexit Inland border facilities
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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