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Recommendation 11
11
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The manner in which this decision was announced leaves a lot to be desired.
Conclusion
The manner in which this decision was announced leaves a lot to be desired. The confusion around the ways and means which will be used to achieve the strategic objective (let alone the strategic objective itself) is unhelpful and does not lend itself to effective scrutiny, particularly when Ministers provide the bare minimum of information. This is compounded by the fact that, more than six weeks after the decision had been announced and we had requested more information from them, we have not received any evidence, written or oral from either of the Departments involved.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
1 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats Operation Isotrope: Government response 7 The Government believes the Committee’s point on the timing of the announcement is disingenuous. The policy was announced on 14 April 2022 by the Prime Minister. The ‘announcement’ to which the Committee refers was an answer to an Urgent Question by the Committee Chair. It would have been wrong to mislead the House and claim that planning was not underway when it was.