Speeches

Keith Vaz – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many weapons have been seized at the UK border by (a) type of weapon and (b) port of entry in each year since 2010.

James Brokenshire

The tables attached show the number of weapons seized by Border Force at the UK border by type, from 2010/11 up to the end of November 2015. These tables do not include firearms as they are treated as a separate category for statistical purposes.

In relation to the port of entry, Border Force does not release port specific figures due to security issues .