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1061027

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12th February to Question 218262 on UK-France Migration Committee, for what reason the dates and locations of those meetings were not provided in the answer.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	221662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>As previously advised in the response to Question 218262, the UK-France Migration Committee meets on a bi-monthly basis and is hosted alternately by the UK Home Office and French Interior Ministry. It is not Home Office policy to release detailed information on meetings that ministers and/or officials attend</p><p><br>As regards payments to the French Government, no additional payments have been made beyond those detailed in the response to Question 217548, dated 12th February 2019.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 221671 question first answered 09/09/2019 15:39:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1060837

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February to Question 218262 on UK-France Migration Committee if he will publish the membership of the Committee from each of the Contracting States.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	220875
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee is comprised of policy experts and senior officials from both contracting states and is tasked with overseeing the implementation of the Sandhurst Treaty and ensuring a high level of cooperation on border security and migration issues. The membership is not fixed, attendees vary over time and correlate to the issues being discussed. The Committee is normally chaired by the Director General responsible for immigration policy of the hosting state.</p><p>The package of €50 million was committed by the UK to implement the terms of the Sandhurst Treaty. This funding package has been allocated to a variety of projects, including improvements to security infrastructure at the northern French ports, cooperation in facilitating returns, improving access to French domestic asylum procedures and ensuring that vulnerable migrants are provided with the support and care that they require. It is expected that the full €50 million will have been allocated to projects before the end of this financial year. More precise details of individual projects cannot be provided for reasons of security.</p><p>A copy of the Joint Action Plan agreed with the French Government is publicly available on gov.uk, at the following address:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-france-joint-action-plan-on-illegal-migration-across-the-channel" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-france-joint-action-plan-on-illegal-migration-across-the-channel</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 220876 220877 question first answered 19/02/2019 16:17:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1056701

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 215158, on what dates and in which locations the UK-France Migration Committee has met.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	218262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee meets on a bi-monthly basis and is hosted alternately by the UK and French Governments. Going forward, the Committee will continue to meet on this basis. Exact dates are finalised closer to the meetings, to ensure that the relevant senior officials and experts are able to attend.</p><p>In order to implement the terms of the Sandhurst Treaty, the UK made a commitment of €50 million. This funding package has been allocated to a variety of projects, including improvements to security infrastructure at the northern French ports, cooperation in facilitating returns, improving access to French domestic asylum procedures and ensuring that vulnerable migrants are provided with the support and care that they require. Precise details of these projects cannot be provided for reasons of security.</p><p>To date, €42.5 million of this package has been committed, and we are on track to allocate the remainder before the end of the 18/19 financial year. Both countries will continue to cooperate closely to prevent illegal migration and to maintain the security of our shared border as well as the operation of the juxtaposed controls.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 218263 218264 218265 218266 218267 218268 question first answered 12/02/2019 12:20:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1056702

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 215158, what the forward schedule for future meetings of the UK-France Migration Committee; and in which locations will those meetings take place.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	218263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee meets on a bi-monthly basis and is hosted alternately by the UK and French Governments. Going forward, the Committee will continue to meet on this basis. Exact dates are finalised closer to the meetings, to ensure that the relevant senior officials and experts are able to attend.</p><p>In order to implement the terms of the Sandhurst Treaty, the UK made a commitment of €50 million. This funding package has been allocated to a variety of projects, including improvements to security infrastructure at the northern French ports, cooperation in facilitating returns, improving access to French domestic asylum procedures and ensuring that vulnerable migrants are provided with the support and care that they require. Precise details of these projects cannot be provided for reasons of security.</p><p>To date, €42.5 million of this package has been committed, and we are on track to allocate the remainder before the end of the 18/19 financial year. Both countries will continue to cooperate closely to prevent illegal migration and to maintain the security of our shared border as well as the operation of the juxtaposed controls.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 218262 218264 218265 218266 218267 218268 question first answered 12/02/2019 12:20:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1052287

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the UK-France Migration Committee established under Article 9 of the Sandhurst Treaty 2018 has met; on what dates and in which locations that committee met; and if he will place the minutes of those meetings and other documents relating to the committee in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	215158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government committed €50 million in order to implement a range of agreed actions under the terms of the 2018 Sandhurst Treaty. Payments from this package have been made across the course of the 18/19 financial year as and when required by specific projects. The agreed programme of work is designed to improve security at the shared border in Northern France, reduce illegal migration flows towards northern French ports and support France in returning migrants with no legal right to be in Europe. We are forecasting to spend the full package allocated to this work.</p><p>Within this package, £3.6 million was specifically allocated to funding the development of the Dublin process to support transfers of eligible children to the UK. The Dublin III Regulation is a long-standing mechanism between EU Member States to determine responsibility for examining asylum claims. The Government has committed to publishing regular updates on the number of requests processed under the Dublin III Regulation. The latest figures will be published on 28th February 2019 as part of the wider quarterly release of Migration Statistics.</p><p>Migration cooperation between the UK and France, including implementation of the Sandhurst Treaty is overseen by the senior official UK-France Migration Committee, which generally meets alternately in Paris and London on a bi-monthly basis. The minutes of those meetings are confidential and to disclose them would risk injuring relations with an important foreign ally.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 215155 215156 215157 question first answered 06/02/2019 17:02:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

873010

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the UK–France Migration Committee has met since the Sandhurst Treaty was agreed; and if so, what (1) decisions it has taken, and (2) action it has approved.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL6692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2018 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee most recently met on 27 March 2018. The Committee routinely discusses ongoing co-operation on migration and border security, including how agreed funding should be spent. This meeting followed a similar pattern with a particular focus on implementing elements of the Sandhurst Treaty such as improvements to port security and infrastructure, and measures to reduce the impact of migration on Northern French ports.</p><p> </p><p>The UK and France have a long-standing relationship on co-operating on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, including transfers of eligible children under the Dublin Regulation and section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. A constructive official-level meeting relating specifically to the asylum elements of the Sandhurst Treaty took place on 9 February. Cooperation continues on all elements of the Treaty, and the UK has appointed a Liaison Officer to France who will deploy in the coming weeks to support this work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will transfer 480 unaccompanied children from Europe to the UK under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. Over 220 children are already here and transfers are ongoing. We will not provide a running commentary on numbers. On 22 February 2018, the Home Office published data on the number of transfers into the UK from other Dublin states. The relevant statistics can be found at as_22_q, asylum volume 5 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables</a>. 2018 Dublin data will be published in February 2019.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL6693 HL6694 HL6695 question first answered 11/04/2018 15:28:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables.xlsx title asylum5-oct-dec-2017-tables
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton