Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
(asked on 18th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the Government decided to give the Royal Navy primacy in tackling illegal Channel crossings; and which Minister took that decision.
This question was answered on 25th January 2022
Defence initiated planning for the Royal Navy to take primacy over counter migration operations in the English Channel on 30 December 2021. Efforts to tackle illegal Channel migration are cross-Government and include the work of the Cabinet Office taskforce led by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with Ministerial decision making vested in the Cabinet and its sub-committees.