Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 26 July 2022.

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Photo of John Healey John Healey Shadow Secretary of State for Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much (a) his Department and (b) the Navy has spent in total on planning and taking primacy for channel crossings in 2022.

Photo of James Heappey James Heappey The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence

The cost of Defence activity relating to Channel crossings in financial Year 2022-23 will not be known until the accounts have closed in the summer of 2023.

Operation ISOTROPE is being fulfilled from naval assets currently assigned to tasks in UK waters and, as such, the additional costs to the Department for their tasking on ISOTROPE as opposed to other taskings in Home Waters is estimated to be relatively modest.

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