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People Smuggling and Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentHome OfficeTabled Answered 4 September 2025UIN 73215

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of using technology to assist with the reduction of crossings in the English Channel by (a) migrants and (b) people traffickers.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Government keeps all options to tackle small boat crossings and the organised crime groups behind them under constant review, including the new and emerging technologies to do so.

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