Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to report on the effect of the £54 million given to the French authorities for the purposes of border control on the number of migrants reaching the UK via Channel crossings.
On 20 July 2021, the Home Secretary and her French counterpart, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, signed an agreement that further strengthens UK-France joint cooperation to tackle illegal immigration across the Channel.
The UK-France Joint Statement, which contains further information on that agreement, can be found on the GOV.UK website here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-france-joint-statement-next-phase-of-tackling-illegal-migration.
The impact on migration pressures of our investment under the Sandhurst Treaty is jointly assessed by France and the UK. The UK and France monitor the impact of funding through maintaining operational and policy level contact and regular strategic reviews. In line with previous arrangements, the impact of this year’s funding package will be reviewed through jointly agreed results frameworks and via a joint UK-France Monitoring Committee.
We are not intending to publish reports on the results frameworks, as these relate to sensitive operational activity.