Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2022 to Question 97480 on UK Border Force: Patrol Craft, when the formal launch of market engagement for the procurement of replacement Border Force vessels will take place.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Formal discussions on the procurement of replacement Border Force Vessels have not yet taken place.
No final decision has been taken on market engagement plans.
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with UK industry on the procurement of replacement Border Force vessels.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Formal discussions on the procurement of replacement Border Force Vessels have not yet taken place.
No final decision has been taken on market engagement plans.
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department allocated to Border Force Maritime Command in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The information requested could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.
Border Force does not hold this data in an easily accessible format.
The Home Office annual report and accounts can be found at GOV.UK:
HO annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on unplanned maintenance and repair of Border Force Cutters in each of the last five years as of 1 March 2023.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Vessels become non-operational either to rectify minor faults which only take a short period of time or because they are going into planned maintenance.
Border Force Maritime Command factor into the yearly budgets maintenance and repair costs to ensure our Maritime teams remain fully operational.
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2023 to Question 143701 on Waste: Crime, whether her Department has had recent discussions with relevant stakeholders on updating the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy to include waste crime.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
My department regularly engages with a range of stakeholders on matters relating to serious and organised crime.
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2023 to Question 150409 on UK Border Force: Patrol Craft, how much her Department has (a) allocated to and (b) spent on plans to procure a replacement (a) Cutter and (b) Coastal Patrol Vessel maritime capability for Border Force.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The budget on 27 October 2021 announced funding of £74m over the Spending Review period, within an estimated total capital spend of around £224m, covering both Cutter and Coastal Patrol Vessel replacement. The full cost of the programme, including beyond the Spending Review period, will be refined once supplier engagement has taken place.
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the end of service date is for each of Border Force's Cutters.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The schedule for replacing the Border Force fleet of five cutters and six coastal patrol vessels is, as set out in the refresh of the National Shipbuilding Strategy, framed around the existing vessels approaching the end of their lives and requiring replacement over the next five years.
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on its plans to procure (a) five new cutters and (b) six new coastal patrol vessels.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Progress continues to be made on plans to procure a replacement Cutter and Coastal Patrol Vessel maritime capability for Border Force.
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many days HM Cutter (a) Seeker, (b) Searcher, (c) Vigilant, (d) Valiant and (e) Sentinel spent (i) on patrol and (ii) out of service for repair in January 2023.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Vessels become non-operational either to rectify minor faults which only take a short period of time, because they are going into planned maintenance, including the requirement for annual safety assessments and certification and for work as part of our ship life extension programme or due to developing a more significant defect which was unplanned.
Border Force will always try to arrange for the longer planned maintenance periods necessary for our vessels to be undertaken, when operational demand is less.
For security reasons Border Force does not release information regarding individual vessels
Asked by: Kevan Jones (Labour - North Durham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the update to the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy will include tackling waste crime.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
The Government plans to publish an updated Serious and Organised Crime Strategy later this year.