Question follow-through · 30930
UK Border Force: Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that Border Force personnel have the same standard of equipment as police officers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 19 Feb 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
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that Border Force personnel have the same standard of equipment as police officers.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Feb 2025
Answer published
Border Force staff are provided with all the equipment that is necessary and appropriate to do their job.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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