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UK Border Agency: Manpower

Volume 507: debated on Thursday 11 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many UK Border Agency staff were based in each overseas country on 1 December 2009. (313504)

661 UK-based UK Border Agency staff are posted or are working overseas.

Another 1,510 staff locally engaged by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office also work for the UK Border Agency are based abroad.

The following tables give the breakdown by each country:

Table 1: Entirety of work force1, United Kingdom-based UK Border Agency staff posted or working overseas

Countries2

Number

France

125

India

76

Nigeria

68

United Arab Emirates

43

Belgium

36

China

39

South Africa

25

Philippines

23

Russian Federation

21

Ghana

23

Pakistan

17

Bangladesh

12

Jamaica

10

Kenya

10

Turkey

10

Egypt

8

Thailand

8

Poland

6

Total of employees in countries with five or fewer posted UK staff3

101

Total

661

1 Border Force staff as at 31 December 2009, International Group staff as at 22 January 2009. 2 Countries with more than five posted UK staff. 3 Total representation in countries with five or fewer posted UK staff.

Table 2: Foreign and Commonwealth Office staff who are locally engaged and are thus based overseas, who work for the UK Border Agency

Country

Locally engaged workers (Number)

India

208

Nigeria

133

China

110

United Arab Emirates

106

Pakistan

88

United States

66

South Africa

51

Bangladesh

43

Philippines

36

Russian Federation

34

Australia

33

Turkey

32

Ghana

31

Thailand

28

Kenya

26

France

18

Germany

18

Iran

17

Malaysia

16

Sri Lanka

14

Italy

13

Jamaica

13

Jordan

13

Saudi Arabia

13

Ukraine

13

Canada

12

Egypt

12

Ethiopia

12

Spain

11

Colombia

10

Gambia, The

9

Irish Republic

9

Kuwait

9

Cyprus

8

Morocco

8

Taiwan (China)

8

Brazil

7

Macedonia

7

Yugoslavia

7

Libya

6

Netherlands

6

Romania

6

Vietnam

6

Countries with five or less locally engaged workers

184

Total

1,510