Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many new officials tasked with (a) immigration and (b) customs enforcement duties at the UK border were recruited in each of the last six months.

Border Force has recruited 400 officers to work across a range of functions during the period covering 1 July 2017 to 31 December 2017. The below table shows the breakdown of new entrants by month.

We are unable to show the distribution of officers between immigration and customs duties, this is a local management decision and figures are not held centrally.