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<p>The Home Secretary and I engage regularly with our French counterparts on the issue
of small boat crossings.</p><p>Our joint work with France saw nearly 33,000 crossings
prevented in 2022, 40% more than in 2021, and so far in 2023 a further 15,000 migrants
have failed to reach our shores on small boats. Alongside this, since July 2020, the
UK-France Joint Intelligence Cell (JIC) and French law enforcement partners have dismantled
82 organised crime groups linked to small boats. In 2022 alone, the JIC and French
law enforcement partners secured the arrest of around 400 people smugglers.</p><p>
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