Immigrants: EU Countries
Home Department
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department
(1) what steps she has taken to protect UK borders from increased economic migration from Eurozone countries;
(2) if she will take steps to protect UK borders from mass immigration from the Eurozone in the event of the value of the euro (a) contracting and (b) collapsing;
(3) what assessment she has made of the risk to national security of mass migration following the contraction or collapse of the euro; and if she will publish any such assessment;
(4) if she will put in place legal contingency measures to suspend European Council Directive 2004/38/EC should the Eurozone (a) contract and (b) collapse.
Damian Green (Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office; Ashford, Conservative)
The Government are undertaking extensive contingency planning to deal with all potential Eurozone issues.