Further clarity is required on precisely what difference the assumption of operational responsibility for migrant crossings in the Channel by the Royal Navy (rather than Channel crossings, migration and asylum 45 Border Force) is intended to achieve and what measure of success will be applied when these arrangements are reviewed in January. We invite the Home Office to provide that clarity in its response to this Report.

Further clarity is required on precisely what difference the assumption of operational responsibility for migrant crossings in the Channel by the Royal Navy (rather than Channel crossings, migration and asylum 45 Border Force) is intended to achieve and what measure of success will be applied when these arrangements are reviewed in January. We invite the Home Office to provide that clarity in its response to this Report. Type: conclusion | Number: 12 | Paragraph: 47 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: There is a whole of Government effort against these dangerous and unnecessary crossings. It is right and proper that we make the fullest possible usage of Government resources, including the MOD’s unrivalled capability for Command, Control and Co-ordination of operational responses. Since April 2022