Immigration: English Channel
(asked on 8th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to his Department (a) has been and (b) will be of Royal Navy assets patrolling the English Channel in relation to immigration.
This question was answered on 18th February 2019
The deployment of the Royal Navy vessel is an interim measure whilst the two Border Force cutters currently redeployed from overseas make their way back to UK waters.
As stated in the House of Lords by Baroness Williams on 6 February 2019 to date, it has cost a total of £700,000.
The deployment is being funded by the Home Office and will be kept under constant review.