Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she next plans to meet her French counterpart to discuss immigration controls at Calais.

I last met the French Interior Minister bilaterally on 6 November, and we and our officials have a strongly collaborative relationship. It is in the interests of both the UK and France to work together to tackle the migration pressures at Calais. We are working closely and collaboratively with the French authorities on all matters of border security and cross border criminality to maintain the integrity of our joint border controls and we have regular discussions to support this work.