Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle illegal migration.

Mr Speaker, this Government came to office with a pledge to crack down on the organised crime gangs responsible for the vile trade in people-smuggling across the Channel, working with our counterparts in Europe and beyond, and I am pleased to report that those efforts have produced significant successes in recent weeks.

Working with agencies across government and with international partners, our new Border Security Command will continue to lead the UK’s efforts to dismantle the smuggling gangs, and disrupt their supply chains, and I look forward to further successes resulting from that work in the weeks and months to come.