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Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking to steps to support the National Crime Agency to implement a recruitment strategy for meeting operational challenges presented by small-boat crossings in the English Channel.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
12 Dec 2024
Answer
18 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking to steps to support the National Crime Agency to implement a recruitment strategy for meeting operational challenges presented by small-boat crossings in the English Channel.

  2. 12 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    We work closely with the National Crime Agency to ensure it has the resources it needs to investigate organised immigration crime leading to small boat crossings. Since July, we have funded an extra 100 specialist NCA intelligence and investigative office...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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