Margaret Curran – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Curran on 2014-04-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual cost to her Department is of providing UK border control services at (a) Paris Gare Du Nord station, (b) Bruxelles Midi station and (c) Calais port and Eurotunnel terminus.

James Brokenshire

The annual costs of providing UK border control services are as follow:
Paris Gare Du Nord station – £4.6 million
Bruxelles Midi station – £3.3 million
Calais port – £21.8 million
Eurotunnel terminus (Coquelles) – £21.2 million

The above resource costs are based on the last financial year’s data(2013/14)
and are taken from the Home office accounting system Adelphi. These have not
yet been audited. Publication of the annual set of accounts will not present
these costs in this level of detail.