Illegal Immigrants: France

(asked on 5th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the request from the French Interior Minister for British Police to be posted to Calais to assist with dissuading people from seeking to enter the United Kingdom illegally by secreting themselves in vehicles travelling to Kent ports.


Answered by
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Lord Bates
This question was answered on 18th November 2014

The French Interior Ministry issued a correction to Associated French Press on 5 November saying that M. Cazeneuve was in fact making reference to British "officials" and not police.

The UK will not be posting any British police in Calais.

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