Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many removal flights to France are planned under the current pilot scheme in the next three months.

Returns to France under the UK-FR returns agreement commenced on 18 September 2025.

This is a pilot that we want to expand and therefore the numbers will vary. We will not go into the operational details as this would provide criminal smuggling gangs with information that they may use to continue to their vile trade.