Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effect of the anti-human smuggling law adopted by Niger in 2015 on the rate of human smuggling in that country; and if he will make a statement.

It is Her Majesty's Government's assessment that it has become increasingly difficult for traffickers and smugglers to operate ​since the anti-human smuggling law was adopted by Niger in 2015.