Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department made in 2016 of the procurement of light surveillance aircraft for the UK border force; and if she will make a statement.

Border Force have never owned a plane for Aerial Surveillance purposes. There was a Contract with FR Aviation for the Provision of a Managed Aerial Surveillance Service which expired at the end of its Contract period on 5^th January 2016. Post January 2016 Border Force have used a cross government MMO Framework for their Aerial Surveillance needs.

Home Office Commercial are not aware of any assessment made regarding the procurement of a light aerial surveillance aircraft in 2016.