Question follow-through · 65032

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that French authorities uphold agreements on stopping asylum seekers attempting to cross the English Channel.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 4 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 8 Jul 2025
Answer: 14 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that French authorities uphold agreements on stopping asylum seekers attempting to cross the English Channel.
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
Our current cooperation with France on irregular and illegal migration is underpinned by the commitments made in the UK-France Joint Leaders' Declaration - GOV.UK. Any future agreements will be published in the normal way in due course.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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