Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has allocated to Border Force; and how many people have been employed by that agency in each year since 2012.
The table below outlines (i) the Border Force net resource budget from 2012/13 to 2016/17; and (ii) the total number of staff and the number of paid civil servants in post (full time equivalent) at the end of each financial year.
| 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Total resource including depreciation (£m) | 617 | 556 | 523 | 560 | 558 |
Comparative (excluding estates and IT) (£m) | 520 | 509 | 523 | 560 | 558 |
Staff - total (FTE) | 8,123 | 8,044 | 8,153 | 7,646 | N/A |
Paid Civil Servants (FTE) | 7,553 | 7,635 | 7,814 | 7,337 | N/A |
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Please Note: | |||||
*The Comparative figures for 2012/13 and 2013/14 do not include IT and Estates budgets, which were included in previously released figures, and were taken back under central Home Office control after 2013/14. | |||||
Data for staffing levels in 2016/17 will be available once the Financial year has completed | |||||
Data Source: Office for National Statistics compliant monthly snapshot corporate Human Resources data for Home Office. | |||||
Period Covered: figures as at 31st March each year | |||||
Organisational coverage: Figures include staff in Border Force. | |||||
Definition of 'Staff- total (FTE)': Data is based on all Paid and Unpaid Civil Servants and Non Civil Servants (those substituting in civil servant roles such as Agency and contractor staff) who were current employees at 31st March each year |
The ‘Comparative’ figures in the table for 2012/13 and 2013/14 do not include IT and Estates budgets, which were included in previously released figures. The IT and Estates budgets were taken under central Home Office control after 2013/14.
The security of our border is paramount and the UK maintains some of the toughest border controls in the world. Border Force continues to deliver against its Operating Mandates whilst capital investment is delivering technology at the border to improve security and strengthen control.