In Parliament

I thank my hon. Friend and other honourable colleagues for their important campaigning to ventilate this issue.

I have visited our clandestine command and control team, headed up by Dan O’Mahoney and Border Force officials, and we have a military prese

I do not believe that this is throwing good money after bad because, as I said, this year alone we have seen 30,000 successful interventions

My hon. Friend is right that there is a real need for a multi-pronged approach.

The Afghan citizens resettlement scheme, which commenced on 6 January 2022, will see up to 20,000 at-risk people resettled to the United Ki

I am not going to repeat myself, but I think the deal is a good step forward and a great platform from which to build deeper co-operation.

The reality is that the accommodation pressure that we are seeing today is a symptom of the broader problem of unprecedented numbers of peop

The UK is working closely with France to reduce illegal small boat crossings over the channel.

My hon. Friend is right that there is a real need for a multi-pronged approach.

The reality is that the accommodation pressure that we are seeing today is a symptom of the broader problem of unprecedented numbers of peop