Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to create a national strategy on migration and forced displacement.

The Government takes an integrated approach to migration and forced displacement. On migration, the UK’s coordinated approach is set out in the Illegal Migration Strategy, which aims to improve asylum and returns processes and combat organised immigration crime and modern slavery, as well as to promote safe and regular migration in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The government’s strategy on forced displacement is to address the drivers of conflict, instability and lack of economic opportunities in key source countries.

In addition, DFID is leading UK government efforts to secure more coordinated global management of migration & displacement through the separate Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees.