I do not know off the top of my head exactly, but I am sure that I am about to get input from the Box; it must be a matter of months. I say that because the reason we want to get this Bill enacted before the Summer Recess is that we will then be able to have the bulk of the people, or large numbers of them—but not all of them—trained by September or October for this. I have just got the figure: it takes 14 weeks to get a Customs officer trained up on immigration aspects; I hope in a minute to get the other figure. I imagine it takes a similar time to train an immigration officer specifically on those Customs aspects. All they have to learn are the border issues, not the much broader Revenue and other matters, to achieve that.
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord West of Spithead
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 25 February 2009.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL].
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