Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons people making Border Force applications in Northern Ireland cannot supplement their qualifying experience with military or police service in the same way as their counterparts in Great Britain can.

Border Force values the experience of people who have worked in the military and law enforcement. Current and former members are free to apply for all our recruitment campaigns.

The requirement was removed by Border Force for this campaign following concerns raised by the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland on using military and law enforcement as a specific criterion.

This was in the interest of ensuring we have a representative profile of candidates in Northern Ireland.