Written Question·Home Office·UIN 8692

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Tabled: 11 October 2024
Answered: 22 October 2024

Question

Nigel Farage

Reform UKClacton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the value for money of payments made to the French government to stop the departures of illegal boats travelling to the UK from northern France.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Expenditure and value for money are monitored closely, with a joint governance structure to ensure the suitability of proposed expenditure against the shared aim of the UK and French Governments of stopping these dangerous and unnecessary crossings.