Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list all contracts for the procurement of aircraft that were cancelled by her Department from 2010 to 2018.

Border Force have never owned a plane for Aerial Surveillance purposes. There was a Contract with FR Aviation for the Provision of a Managed Aerial Surveillance Service which expired at the end of its Contract period on 5^th January 2016. Post January 2016 Border Force have used a cross government MMO Framework for their Aerial Surveillance needs.

Home Office Commercial are not aware of any assessment made regarding the procurement of a light aerial surveillance aircraft in 2016.