Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her oral statement on Calais of 24 October 2016, Official Report, columns 64-5, what discussions she has had with her (a) Belgian, (b) Dutch, (c) German and (d) Danish counterparts on ensuring that the closure of the Calais camp does not result in the displacement of migrants and refugees to ports in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.

The UK Government regularly shares intelligence and cooperates with our international partners to monitor and counter displacement from Calais.

The UK is working extensively with international partners to tackle the people smuggling gangs who may facilitate displacement to other ports. In November 2015 the then Immigration Minister signed a joint declaration with Dutch and Belgian ministers to strengthen our joint response to the threat from organised immigration crime at northern European ports. More widely, the UK has established an Organised Immigration Taskforce that is exploiting opportunities in Europe and Africa to disrupt the crime groups involved.