Question follow-through · 89993
Immigration Controls: France
To ask the Solicitor General, how many (a) active and (b) concluded cases the Government Legal Department has handled relating to legal challenges against the one-in, one-out migrant returns scheme; and what the total cost of that litigation has been.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Attorney General
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Solicitor General, how many (a) active and (b) concluded cases the Government Legal Department has handled relating to legal challenges against the one-in, one-out migrant returns scheme; and what the total cost of that litigation has been.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2025
Answer published
The UK-France Treaty is an innovative pilot designed to deter illegal migration across the Channel. Litigation related to this pilot was anticipated and we are concentrating resources on robustly defending this so that removals can continue as planned. As...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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