Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Richard Baker and Yvette Cooper

Monday 7th July 2025 Commons Chamber

[Yvette Cooper]

My hon. Friend is right to refer both to returns—we have increased returns of failed asylum seekers by more than 20% since the election—and to the action against the criminal gangs. We know that there are Iraqi Kurdish gangs in particular operating in northern France, so we have a new agreement in place with the French Government, the Iraqi Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, to pursue those gangs.

[Richard Baker (Glenrothes and Mid Fife) (Lab)]

17. What recent progress her Department has made on tackling antisocial behaviour.