Refugees: France

(asked on 9th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money from the public purse has been allocated to the French Government for refugee control.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 30th June 2020

The UK made a financial contribution in 2018 to France to deliver on our obligations under Articles 2-4 of the UK-France Sandhurst Treaty. These articles outline our commitment to (i) continued implementation of the Dublin process (ii) facilitating the transfer of unaccompanied minors under national relocation schemes, and (iii) improving access to French domestic asylum procedures.

£3.6 million was specifically allocated to funding the development of the Dublin and Dubs process to support transfers of eligible children to the UK, including training for those working with unaccompanied children, family tracing and targeted information campaigns.?We continue to work with France to transfer eligible children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 and the Dublin regulation and transfers are ongoing.

The UK Government does not fund the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité, whose deployment and operations are the responsibility of the French Government.

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