Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional UK police and Border Force personnel have been deployed to join 24/7 freight search teams in Calais since 20 August 2015.

For border security reasons the Home Office does not publicly disclose details of operational deployments at the UK border. Border Force continually monitors the pressures of illegal immigration at the UK border. Joint work is undertaken with French law enforcement agencies and port operators to bolster security and ensure staff from respective organisations are deployed to meet operational needs.