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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2024-01-16more like thismore than 2024-01-16
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Home Office more like this
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answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Immigration Controls more like this
house id 2 more like this
legislature
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pref label House of Lords more like this
question text To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to enhance UK border security and immigration enforcement. more like this
tabling member printed
Lord Hay of Ballyore more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2024-01-30more like thismore than 2024-01-30
answer text <p>The Home Office’s priority is to deliver a safe and secure border and we will never compromise on this. Border Force maintain 100% checks for all scheduled arriving passengers into the UK and this will be continued during any period.</p><p>Border Force deploys to risk using tested, but continually assessed, intelligence and targeting techniques. Border Force does not publish information on operational activities. Doing so would publicise operational practices which would be used to assist in the evasion of customs controls and compromise border security.</p><p>Immigration Enforcement is taking robust action to tackle illegal migration through:</p><ul><li>returning more than 24,000 people in 2023 who have no right to be in the UK, including more than 5,500 Albanians;</li><li>increasing enforcement visits, with 10,509 in the first 9 months of 2023 compared to 6,865 in the same period in 2022 and 5,576 people arrested linked to these compared to 2,175 in the previous year; and</li><li>disrupting organised crime groups, resulting in 246 arrests of people smugglers in 2023.</li></ul>
answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom more like this
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less than 2024-01-30T17:09:05.8Zmore like thismore than 2024-01-30T17:09:05.8Z
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label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom more like this
tabling member
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label Biography information for Lord Hay of Ballyore remove filter