UK Border Force: Shipping
(asked on 18th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of hours the cutters used by Border Force run on their main engines per annum.
This question was answered on 21st October 2021
On average in 2020, each vessel ran for 1112 hours.
Each Border Force Cutter is available at short notice for deployment in UK territorial waters and is deployed for 15 days at a time in 12-hour shifts before the necessary crew changes are made.