questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s press release entitled New UK-France agreement to reduce illegal crossings, published on 23 April 2026, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of previous UK-France agreements since 2023 in reducing illegal crossings; and if she will set out how those assessments informed the terms of the new agreement.
answerText: Illegal small boat crossings are driven by organised criminal gangs and have cost lives. The result is a severe strain on both our asylum system and our wider social contract. Since 2021, over 400,000 people have claimed asylum in the UK. At its peak in 2...
heading: Undocumented Migrants: France