Andy Burnham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Burnham on 2016-01-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff there were in the UK Border Force and its predecessor in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13, (e) 2013-14, (f) 2014-15 and (g) 2015-16; and what the UK Border Force’s planned total staff complement is for 2016-17.
Mrs Theresa May
The Border Force workforce is drawn from two precursor organisations: Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Immigration Service. Border Force was established in its current form in March 2012 and since that time the workforce has ranged from approximately 7800 – 8100 in full-time equivalents.
The detailed breakdown requested is as follows (all figures are full-time equivalents):
March 2010 4506 – UKBA
4639 – HMRC (transferred to UKBA 1st April 2010)
March 2011 8269 – UKBA
March 2012 7846 – Border Force
March 2013 8123 – Border Force
March 2014 8044 – Border Force
March 2015 8153 – Border Force
Workforce numbers for FY16/17 have not yet been finalised.
