Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the a) terms, b) monitoring arrangements and c) i) children’s and ii) human rights impact assessments for the April 2026 UK-France border security agreement.

The UK and France agreed a new border security partnership in April 2026 that will strengthen joint efforts to tackle illegal migration and prevent dangerous Channel crossings. This work is explicitly focused on saving lives by bearing down on the criminal gangs who profit from a business model that exploits vulnerable people.

The agreement is subject to robust monitoring and evaluation arrangements agreed with France. These include regular joint assessment of activity and its impact, to ensure that funding and operational activity are delivering against shared objectives.

As is standard for agreements of this nature, detailed operational terms and associated documents are not published, as doing so would risk undermining the effectiveness of activity designed to disrupt organised criminal networks.

The Government takes its obligations in respect of children and human rights seriously. All activity undertaken as part of the UK–France partnership is delivered in line with our domestic and international legal obligations.