Question follow-through · 905655
UK Border Force: Patrol Craft
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using a UK-based manufacturer to build the Border Force’s replacement cutters and coastal patrol vessels.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 6 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
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using a UK-based manufacturer to build the Border Force’s replacement cutters and coastal patrol vessels.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
Border Force Maritime Command is the UK’s national sea-going law enforcement body. Its Cutter and CPV fleet tackles the whole range of law enforcement duties, including preventing and deterring importation of illegal drugs, organised people crime and othe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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