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<p>In July 2020, the Government announced a £705 million package of investment in
border infrastructure, staff and technology to ensure GB border systems would be ready
for the transition period. This included the £200 million Port Infrastructure Fund
(PIF), £270 million for inland infrastructure and a further £235 million for border
IT, systems and recruitments.</p><p>As of early December 2021, £95.5 million in grants
from the PIF had been disbursed to ports to cover verified expenditure to date. Of
the £200 million PIF, we expect all of the £195 million allocated to ports to be spent
by the end of the current (2021-22) financial year. Additionally, by December 2021,
the Department for Transport had spent £292.2 million on inland border infrastructure
and the running of Information and Advice sites.</p><p>HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
has ongoing funding to deliver the key priorities for EU Exit. As of early December
2021, HMRC had spent, for example, £9 million scaling up the existing Customs Handling
of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) system, £45 million on the Goods Vehicle Movement
Service (GVMS) and an additional £76 million on Inland Border Facility (IBF) development.</p><p>Since
departments have border-related funding built into their baseline budgets, it is not
straightforward to provide the total cost to the Government of all new border infrastructure
and IT systems to date. Spending is ongoing and will be accounted for by departments
in the usual way.</p><p> </p>
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