Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings she and ministers of her Department have had with their Irish counterparts on the Common Travel Area arrangements since 2010.

Home Office Ministers and Officials have regular contact with all Common Travel Area (CTA) members and there continues to be excellent government and operational level co-operation. A Joint Ministerial Statement was signed in 2011 by Ireland and the UK, setting out planned cooperation on securing the external border of the CTA. A data-sharing Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the Home Secretary and the Republic of Ireland's Minister for Justice and Equality in October 2014. There is a range of bilateral and multilateral forums for these discussions, including the CTA Forum and the British-Irish Council.