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Border Security Command

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 14 October 2024UIN 6850

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Border Security Command’s (a) target and (b) timeline is for reducing the number of people entering the country via small boat.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Border Security Command is providing cross-system strategic leadership to tackle Organise Immigration Crime, and wider border security threats. The small boat crisis, fuelled by dangerous criminal smuggler gangs, is undermining our security, and is costing lives. Criminal smuggling gangs are making millions out of these crossings and the Border Security Command, and whole system, will tackle the root of the problem by going after these dangerous criminals and bringing them to justice.

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