Calais Debate

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Department: Home Office

Calais

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston Excerpts
Tuesday 14th July 2015

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston Portrait Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston) (Lab)
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Can the Home Secretary tell the House when the secure waiting area will be up and running, whether it will be policed by French or British police officers operating under—presumably—French law, and what the cost will be?

Theresa May Portrait Mrs May
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The secure area will be in place in the autumn: we are working on putting it into place. I would expect it to be policed by the French police, because the British police do not police in other member states. We are providing £12 million, and the security arrangements we are putting in place in Calais will be paid for from that sum of money.