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.

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.