Airports: Security

(asked on 16th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of provision of specialist scanners to screen inbound packages at UK international airports.


Answered by
Robert Jenrick Portrait
Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 19th January 2023

Border Force deploys a range of detection equipment across the UK border to detect illicit border activity. Border Force is continually seeking to develop and invest in new capabilities.

For national security reasons, Border Force does not comment on the specific technology or numbers used.

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