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Undocumented Migrants

Asked by Laura Kyrke-SmithLabourForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled Answered 25 February 2025UIN 902820

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on tackling irregular migration to the UK.

Answered by Anneliese Dodds

The Foreign Secretary has made migration a top Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office priority. On 31 January, the Foreign Secretary travelled to Tunisia to see UK programming addressing the upstream drivers of migration. On 15 February, the Foreign Secretary met key European partners at the Munich Security Conference to discuss how to use sanctions to tackle people smuggling and Organised Immigration Crime.

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