Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 22 July (HL1355), what assessment the UK Border Agency has made of whether it will have access to adequate aerial surveillance platforms in 2016.
Border Force is making plans with its law enforcement partners and other organisations to ensure that it has a sufficient air surveillance capability in place from January 2016 when the contract with its current supplier expires.