Brexit: Border Control Debate
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(7 years ago)
Lords Chamber Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Baroness Evans of Bowes Park 
        
    
        
    
        My Lords, this is really not appropriate during Questions. We will hear quickly from the Liberal Democrat Benches.
 Lord Paddick
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Lord Paddick 
        
    
        
    
        My Lords, the Minister talked about an additional 600 staff being recruited in 2018-19. Does she not agree that there were in fact 450 fewer full-time equivalents in Border Force in 2017-18 than there were five years ago, despite a significant increase in the number of people coming across the border?
 Baroness Williams of Trafford
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Baroness Williams of Trafford 
        
    
        
    
        I did not actually talk about 600 staff; I talked about 900 in three lots of 300. In fact, the number permanently employed in Border Force at the end of 2017-18 was 7,700, and the forecast for 2019 is 8,600.