Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 10 April (HL6032), what estimate they have made of the annual cost of the Border Security Command.

Allocations of funding to individual areas within the Home Office are subject to the Spending Review process and out-turns on spending will be published as usual in the Home Office annual report and accounts.