English Channel Small Boats Incident Debate

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Department: Home Office

English Channel Small Boats Incident

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Thursday 25th November 2021

(3 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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The answer is yes, there is a role. The Home Office has been tasked to look at private sector companies and support. In fact, I put the offer on the table to my French counterpart this morning, not for the first time, to have other contractors join the collective effort.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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Against the background of British troops being sent to Poland to help to secure the border with Belarus, can the Home Secretary confirm and clarify the basis of her broad and generous offer to the French? Has she offered Border Force cutters to work close to shore off the French coast in conjunction with the French, and has she offered the deployment of British troops and UK police, if necessary under French command, to operate on French beaches?