UK Border Force: Boats

(asked on 6th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from which country and which location in that country each boat in the service of Border Force was procured from.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 12th July 2021

Cutters - HMC Seeker, Searcher, Vigilant and Valiant were procured from Holland and HMC Protector was procured from Finland.

Coastal Patrol Vessels (CPVs) – Active, Alert, Eagle, Nimrod, Hunter and Speedwell were procured in the UK.

RHIBs – All 5 current RHIBs in service were procured in the UK.

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