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UK Border Agency: Manpower

Volume 494: debated on Monday 15 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many airport liaison officers are employed by the UK Border Agency; and what their average annual salary is. (278706)

The available data are set out in the following table:

Airport liaison officer function1

Grade2

Head count

Annualised national pay amount (£)3

CIO Chief Immigration Officer

48

30,403

HM Inspector of Immigration

6

35,774

Immigration Officer

27

24,014

Average overall

87

28,620

1 Information is only available, at this level, on employees presently held on the central UK Border Agency computerised personnel system ADELPHI.

2 Other grades comprising less than five members of staff have been excluded.

3 National pay excluding allowances. Average annualised figure based on actual May 2009 pay.

Airport liaison officer is not a specific UK Border Agency grade but a function. 87 individuals are presently employed by the Risk and Liaison Overseas Network which is the unit responsible for this function, in the above grades.

Any other UK Border Agency employees still held on loan to Foreign and Commonwealth Office, or other FCO-managed staff who became part of UK Border Force in the machinery of Government changes cannot be differentiated by function except at disproportionate cost.