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<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>
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