Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of changes in the number of seasonal staff in the Border Force on (a) queuing times and (b) customs activities.
No seasonal staff in Border Force are employed on zero hours contracts.
The deployment of seasonal workers has bolstered Border Force capability during forecasted busy periods by assisting the processing of passengers within service level agreement times, and has released permanent staff from the Primary Control Point to carry out important customs activities.