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Border Security Command: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many specialist officers have been recruited for the Border Security Command since 1 September 2024.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
4 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many specialist officers have been recruited for the Border Security Command since 1 September 2024.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Border Security Command (BSC) has been appropriately resourced with staff in policy, diplomatic and intelligence roles to ensure it can provide strategic leadership across government, with operational partners and in the UK and overseas. The departmen...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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