Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab)

As I said before, the National Crime Agency has been excellent on global co-operation, particularly with Interpol. We are also working on a bilateral basis with European countries to strengthen not on

I thank the noble Viscount for his question. I suggest that he read the Home Secretary’s press release earlier this week, which addressed exactly that. We are tackling this and we have made arrests re

I will agree to write to the noble Lord, because I do not have that information. I would stress that our impact is not simply that physical presence stopping the boats. The biggest impact we can have

One of the things we have to understand about these crime gangs is that illegal immigration into this country has occurred through a number of different routes. Obviously, the Question is focused on b

The first thing this Government did was to introduce Border Security Command. It works with the National Crime Agency, which is a United Kingdom agency that co-operates with agencies across the world

In my previous response I alluded to how important international co-operation is, not least on migration crime and gangs but also on drugs. We have seen success and we are co-ordinating with countries