Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the decision to cancel the communications campaign (a) Tackling Money Mules and (b) Upstream Migrant Deterrence on (i) crime and (ii) illegal immigration; and what the business case was for cancelling each of those projects.

The National Crime Agency ran a low-cost campaign targeting money mules as part of Operation European Money Mule Action (EMMA) 10. EMMA 10 was a time limited Europol-led intensification that ran from September to November 2024 and aimed to disrupt mule activity through upstream activities targeting mule facilitators and recruiters.

The Home Office’s communications campaign, aimed at deterring irregular and illegal migration has not been cancelled.