Question follow-through · 67424
People Smuggling: Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the funding allocated to support (a) joint working arrangements and (b) enforcement plans agreed with French Government on 27 February 2025 to tackle people smuggling gangs has been used.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 4 Aug 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the funding allocated to support (a) joint working arrangements and (b) enforcement plans agreed with French Government on 27 February 2025 to tackle people smuggling gangs has been used.
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Aug 2025
Answer published
As part of the UK-FR Joint Leaders’ Declaration, published on 23 March 2023, the United Kingdom has agreed to contribute €209m to reduce instances of irregular migration to the UK in the Financial Year 2025-26.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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