Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts on 3 May 2016, on confiscation orders: progress review, how many outages of the Semaphore computer system have occurred since 2010; and how long each such outage lasted.

For national security reasons, we do not comment on operational issues such as performance and functionality of border security systems.