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Agency staff recruited to UK Border Force as Brexit transition ended, MPs told

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Agency workers were recruited to fill gaps in Britain's Border Force in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition, MPs were told today.

Bosses needed to hit a target of 1,570 extra staff by December 31 and turned to a high street agency to find workers. The temps are now carrying out “transit checks” on freight carried across the Channel.

UK Border Force director-general Paul Lincoln told the Commons Public Accounts Committee: “We had 1,570 people in. “Some of those were contingency staff which we took from agencies, which was a deliberate decision which we took earlier in the year to allow us to continue training more permanent staff. “But we had exactly the number of resources, plus some contingency on top of that, in place for

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