Question follow-through · 33032

People Smuggling: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen deterrents against people smugglers involved in illegal Channel crossings; and what steps the Government is taking with its international counterparts

answeredHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 24 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 26 Feb 2025
Answer: 3 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen deterrents against people smugglers involved in illegal Channel crossings; and what steps the Government is taking with its international counterparts
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
I refer the Honourable Member to the Written Ministerial Statement (UIN UCSW406) made by the Home Secretary on 30 January 2025 on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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