Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Border Force budget was in each financial year since 2012-13; how many full-time equivalent staff were (a) planned for and (b) actually employed using that budget in each of those years; how much and what proportion of that budget was from a temporary budget increase relating to the UK leaving the EU; and what the Border Force's (i) budget and (ii) full-time equivalent staffing projections are for the financial years 2019-20 and 2020-21.

The latest published staffing and finance figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2018-2019 on page 85 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2018-to-2019

The previous published staffing and financial figures for Border Force in 2012-2019 and its predecessor the UK Border Agency in 2010-2012 can be found at the following links:

2012-2013:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013

2013-2014:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014

2014-2015:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015

2015-2016:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016

2016-2017:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017

2017-2018:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018

Excluding EU Exit, Border Force’s gross resource budget for 2019-20 is £488m. This includes an income target of £19m, which means a net allocation of £469m.

Border Force has received a total of c.£182m for EU Exit preparations in 2019/20. (£141m Resource and £41M Capital)

Border Force originally received funding, based on a Deal, of £100m; this funding was to fund recruitment for full customs compliance by the end of 2020. The recruitment and training for this uplift of permanent staff has completed bringing the Border Force FTE to over 8,700 from 7,700 in March 2018. The additional £41m Resource funding provided throughout 2019-20 enabled further recruitment with Border Force expecting to reach c9,300 FTE by March 2020.

Border Force received a total £82.1m for EU Exit preparations in 2018/19 (£72.1m Resource and £10m Capital)

Border Force received a total of £3.2m for EU Exit preparations in 2017/18 (£1.7m Resource and £1.5m Capital)

Budgets for 20-21 cannot be confirmed as they remain subject to final confirmation.