Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to revert command and control of the Manston immigration facility from the Armed Forces to Border Force.

It was always the case that Defence support to the Home Office will continue until January 2023, at which point the operational and wider arrangements will be reviewed.

Military personnel at the Manston site support the operation primarily through logistics and command and control. They do not routinely carry out duties that bring them into contact with people held at the facility.