Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to protect Border Force and Immigration Enforcement officers from being targeted with legal action by political activists during the performance of their duties.

Border Force and Immigration Enforcement Officers exercise statutory powers when performing their duties, including the power to use reasonable force if necessary.

The Home Office will always defend robustly any legal action brought against them by activists or anyone else, if it relates to the proper discharge of immigration officers’ duties for which they have lawful authority.