Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy that firearms officers from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary will be deployed on British ferries; and what assessment her Department has made of whether that deployment would require legislative change.

The Government will always take the strongest possible action to protect our national security. Our priority remains the safety and security of our citizens. A range of measures are currently being explored to further mitigate the risk of terrorism to UK citizens, which will include fully equipping law enforcement and other emergency responders to respond effectively to terrorist incidents, no matter where they occur.

However, we are not able to comment on specific operational deployments.