questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with her French counterpart on the potential merits of preventing small boats from crossing the Channel by intercepting them mid-journey.
answerText: The Home Secretary and I engage regularly with our French counterparts on the issue of small boat crossings.Our joint work with France saw nearly 33,000 crossings prevented in 2022, 40% more than in 2021, and so far in 2023 a further 15,000 migrants have ...
heading: Undocumented Migrants: English Channel