One can of course site the activities mentioned by
https://inlandborderfacilities.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/White-Cliffs-IBF_Leaflet_Online-Version.pdf inland. That includes not only the HMRC ones of securing dues, collecting statistics, starting/discharging Transit movements, checking certification that EU goods qualify for the "free trade" deal, etc but also the Defra and chums' work to protect our food chain. By 'can' I mean we have done in the past, are doing now and will do in the future - c.f. 3 links, of which the first 2 are not recommended unless you're terminally bored:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?q=https://fsa-catalogue2.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/trafford.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjujY7-opvuAhWJa8AKHfYwDAQQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw1VttBxFtLbzl3_mDBHFJAC (Manchester);
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/goods-location-codes-for-data-element-523-of-the-customs-declaration-service (various);
https://pml-ltd.com/blog/pml-announces-innovative-solution-to-border-control-delays/ (Spalding).
But of course the attractions of Guston to politicians such as ours are that:
- it brings lots of yummy jobs* to the District (and HMG pays for the tarmac) and
- it avoids the risk that manky EU food (you know, the stuff we've been eating since 1993) suddenly breaks out of the lorry and attacks the good people living between here and Spalding. Or wherever.
* unless you can do them on-line sitting in your office someplace else.