Question follow-through · 68248
UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force workers were employed on Seasonal Workforce Contracts in 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Visas: Applications · 15 Sept 2025
- Immigration Controls: EU Countries · 2 Jul 2026
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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
15 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force workers were employed on Seasonal Workforce Contracts in 2024.
17 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
As of the 1st of April 2024, there were 449 Seasonal Workforce staff in contract. The Seasonal Workforce (SWF) was a temporary staffing resource used to support operational delivery during periods of peak demand and recruited under exemptions from the nor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Police: Disciplinary Proceedings
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to ensure ongoing independent expert scrutiny of police conduct and the full transparent investigation of this conduct where required.
Police: Workplace Pensions
9 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2026 to the Question 98986 on Police: Workplace Pensions, whether her Department has identified a solution.
Immigration Controls: EU Countries
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