Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 10
10
Accepted
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Urgently review lessons from migrant crossings, focusing on intelligence, risk assessment, and informing policy.
Conclusion
The Home Office should urgently review lessons learned from the response to migrant crossings since January 2018. The review should focus on intelligence collection, risk assessment and how information is reported to Ministers and used to inform policy. The Home Office should report in its formal response to this Report on how this review will be taken forward, its staffing and objectives. The review’s outcomes should be reported to us within 10 weeks of publication of its formal response to this Report.
Government Response Summary
The government states it keeps its operational plan for small boat crossings under constant review and applies learnings, but is reluctant to publish comprehensive operational details.
Paragraph Reference:
40
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
Given the evolving nature of the operational challenges in the Channel, the Government keeps the operational plan to tackle small boat crossings under constant review. Learnings from past operations inform our current approach. We are reluctant to publish comprehensive operational detail or strategy that could be used to inform the tactics, or otherwise advantage, the smuggling gangs.