Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many investigators, intelligence officers and police officers have been recruited into the Border Security Command to date.

The Border Security Command (BSC) has been launched within the Home Office, led by the Commander, Martin Hewitt. The BSC will be appropriately resourced to ensure we can disrupt organised criminal gangs and respond to a range of threats across the border security system.

The Command will collaborate with a wide range of agencies, recruiting hundreds of new specialist staff across these organisations, including investigators, to smash the criminal gangs and strengthen our borders. Wider recruitment is ongoing and any external opportunities for the BSC will be advertised on Civil Service Jobs; initial roles within the BSC have been filled through internal processes.