Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has conducted an impact assessment of the Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the French Republic Concerning the Reinforcement of Cooperation for the Coordinated Management of their Shared Border, Recognising the Importance of Cooperation at the Juxtaposed Controls after 29 March 2019.

The Treaty between the UK and France signed at Sandhurst in January demonstrates our joint long term commitment to the operation of juxtaposed controls, and to taking a joint approach to tackling the challenges created by illegal migration.

As part of this new Treaty the UK and France agreed a new ‘whole of route’ joint package of cooperation on migration. This includes measures on further strengthening our shared border, combating organised immigration crime and working together to reduce the number of illegal migrants at the northern French ports. The government set out more detail on the Sandhurst Treaty and our work with France in this area in the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 January 2018.

Under the agreement, joint governance structures will ensure that we are maximising the wider benefit to be gained from the UK and France working together across the migration agenda.