Asked by: Craig Tracey (Conservative - North Warwickshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of small boat crossings in the English Channel.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Working with our French counterparts, our focus is on deterring and preventing people from entering the Channel, tackling the criminal gangs responsible and protecting lives.
The new Migration and Economic Partnership with Rwanda, together with the provisions of the Nationality and Borders Act also seek to create a deterrent effect.
Asked by: Craig Tracey (Conservative - North Warwickshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent by police forces on security and policing costs at each HS2 site since 2019.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Department does not centrally collect information on the cost to the public purse for each police force involved in policing the route of HS2.