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Written Question
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
Tuesday 29th November 2022

Asked by: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government plans to take steps to turn back small boats in the English Channel.

Answered by James Heappey

On 24 April 2022, the Home Secretary confirmed that the previously extant policy and procedures relating to the turnaround tactic had been withdrawn. Accordingly Border Force will not implement turnaround tactics under Defence primacy. The Royal Navy position remains that they will not implement or assist in the implementation of turnaround tactics under Defence primacy. Defence has no plans to review this policy.

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