Question follow-through · 2299
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the cost of the reconnaissance aircraft, which are involved in monitoring and identifying small boats carrying migrants, per annum, since the contract was signed.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 14 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
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the cost of the reconnaissance aircraft, which are involved in monitoring and identifying small boats carrying migrants, per annum, since the contract was signed.
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Home Office contracts an aerial surveillance capability in order to detect and monitor people making dangerous, illegal and unnecessary crossings of the Channel in small boats, rather than paying for the individual costs for this capability. Part of t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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