Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16th June 2022 to Question 15307, on UK Border Force: Recruitment, how many members of staff (a) Border Force has recruited and (b) have left Border Force, in 2022.

Border Force has increased its workforce by 3% over 2020/2021 financial year to over 9,300 staff, with a large proportion of those staff trained and deployed to front line operations.

• For security reasons, we do not give out figures of how many staff are working at a given time.
• Border Force keeps its resourcing and staffing numbers under constant review in light of passenger arrival data provided by carriers and port operator.

Border Force has continued to build staffing levels during 2021/2022 and recruitment will continue throughout 2022.