Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the statement by the Prime Minister on Illegal Migration of 13 December 2022, Official Report, column 887, how many Border Force officers her Department plans to embed at Tirana airport; and how many officers have been embedded as of 24 April 2023.

For security reasons, we do not give out figures of how many staff are working at a given time or location.

The latest published staffing figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2021-2022 Home Office annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).