Home Office written question – answered at on 2 July 2020.
Stuart McDonald
Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Immigration, Asylum and Border Control), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Attorney General)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2020 to Question 54929 on UK Border Force: Recruitment, if she will publish the number of Border Force officers empowered to carry out customs tasks under section 3 of the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Act 2009; and how many of those officers will be based in (a) Scotland and (b) the rest of the UK.
Chris Philp
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
Border Force has a workforce model clearly setting out roles and skills coupled with a strategic workforce planning process enabling effective identification of resourcing needs, training requirements and the effective deployment of staff. Any requirement to increase activity in one area will be managed in this context.
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