Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 21 November (HL Deb, col 1724), how many firearm detection dogs have been trained in each year since 2010; and how many are expected to be trained during the remainder of this Parliament.

The number of detection dogs available for deployment to detect illegal goods and clandestines by Border Force is 110. Border Force has a small but growing number of dogs trained specifically to detect firearms and their component parts, with more firearms detection dogs planned to enter into service from December.