UK BORDER FORCE

13th July 2016

Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current (a) manpower establishment and (b) deployment is of the UK Border Force.

James Brokenshire, Minister of State (Minister for Immigration): As of April 2016 there were 7,651.34 full time equivalent staff working for Border Force.

Deployments are made across a wide range of activities based on levels of demand and intelligence. Border Force do not release numbers deployed to specific ports on the grounds of national security.

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