Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the daily operating cost is of a Border Force cutter (a) at sea and (b) in port.

It is Home Office policy not to comment on details of the deployment of any operational capability or taskings, as to do so would or is likely to prejudice national security.

Please see below a Home Office publication link to transparency data from 2010 to financial year 2017/2018 on Home Office spending.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts

Border Force uses a layered approach to coastal defence, including patrols comprising additional military and law enforcement vessels, on-shore resources and intelligence and surveillance to detect efforts to smuggle guns and drugs or facilitate illegal entry into the country.