Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the announcement of the joint UK-France arrangement on tackling small boat crossings in the Channel will affect the proposed (a) timing, (b) funding and (c) scale of her Department's plan to purchase like-for-like replacements for the Border Force's existing fleets of (i) five cutters and (ii) six coastal patrol vessels.

We do not believe the Joint UK-France announcement will affect the timing, funding and scale of the Department’s plans to deliver a future proofed replacement capability for the Border Force’s existing Fleet.