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Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Written Question House of Commons
Mr Will Forster · Liberal Democrat Answering body: Home Office
Parliamentary excerpt

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, given the forthcoming report of the Cranston Public Inquiry into the tragic loss of 27 lives in the English Channel in November 2021, has she undertaken a review of Channel operations, and the search and rescue capability UK Border Force provides to His Majesty's Coastguard.

Government answer

Answering body: Home Office

It would be wrong to pre-empt the findings and recommendations of a public inquiry, but it should be noted that considerable improvements had been made in how UK authorities detect and respond to these dangerous, illegal and unnecessary crossing attempts of the Channel, even before the Cranston Inquiry was announced.

The Home Office will study the findings and recommendations of the Inquiry when they are delivered.

Our thoughts remain with the loved ones of those many people who were lost in this appalling tragedy.

Original parliamentary record