Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to tackle gangs involved in organised immigration crime.

The UK is playing a leading role in tackling organised immigration crime. The Organised Immigration Crime Taskforce, which the Government set up in 2015, brings together officers from the National Crime Agency, Border Force, Immigration Enforcement International and the Crown Prosecution Service to exploit every opportunity at source, in transit countries and in Europe to identify and disrupt organised crime groups involved in immigration crime.