Question follow-through · 25658
UK Border Agency: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of UKBA officers.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of UKBA officers.
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
Regarding the recruitment of Border Force officers, the latest published staffing and finance figures can be found in the Home Office Annual Reports: Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK.However, Border Force workforce planning reflects our ev...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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