As the Daily Mirror (bless them!) put it on 28th April: 'EXCLUSIVE: Tory levelling-up cash used to sort out 'Brexit passport mess' at Dover. Now, the Mirror can reveal ministers are using funds from the Conservatives’ flagship levelling-up pot to increase capacity at the dock.'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-levelling-up-cash-used-29830446
Shocker! Still, at least they accurately reported Transport Minister Richard Holden as stating “Kent County Council has been provisionally awarded £45m from the Levelling-Up Fund to support additional border control booths, extra capacity in buffer zones and resequencing the order of controls at Port of Dover. "