Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish details on the new deal between Britain and India on tackling people smuggling.

The Migration & Mobility Partnership signed between the UK and India this month is an ambitious Memorandum of Understanding designed to improve our mechanisms for tackling illegal migration, enhance our cooperation on tackling organised immigration crime, and improve mobility between our two countries.

The full text of the Memorandum of Understanding is available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-and-mobility-partnership/mou-on-migration-and-mobility-partnership-between-india-and-the-united-kingdom.