Almost half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ cash was spent on sites for Brexit import checks that were never introduced after a government U-turn Rob_Merrick reports:
Brexit food trade: Almost half a billion pounds of UK taxpayers’ cash spent on unused inspection sitesAt least £466m was spent constructing and running seven Inland Border Facilities – but Government then ripped up its policy amid fears of food shortagesAlmost half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ cash was spent on sites for Brexit import checks that were never introduced after a government U-turn,The seven Inland Border Facilities were built to inspect plant and animal goods from the EU,...
Labour condemned “astonishing levels of waste” on botched Brexit planning, while one local authority leader left with a multi-million-pound bill for a vacant inspection point attacked “a complete mess”.operators, criticised the ongoing “trading uncertainty” for its members – and suggested the sites should be refitted as rest facilities for drivers.
Sevington is one of three planned inspection sites still open, along with Holyhead in North Wales, which cost £21m, andHuge bills were also run up at the closed control points at Ebbsfleet, also in Kent , Birmingham Airport , Warrington in Cheshire and North Weald in Essex ., which has taken over the Dover site, refused to reveal its ongoing spending on security, which means the overall bill is almost certainly higher.
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