The Home Office should urgently review lessons learned from the response to migrant crossings since January 2018. The review should focus on intelligence collection, risk assessment and how information is reported to Ministers and used to inform policy. The Home Office should report in its formal response to this Report on how this review will be taken forward, its staffing and objectives. The review’s outcomes should be reported to us within 10 weeks of publication of its formal response to ...

The Home Office should urgently review lessons learned from the response to migrant crossings since January 2018. The review should focus on intelligence collection, risk assessment and how information is reported to Ministers and used to inform policy. The Home Office should report in its formal response to this Report on how this review will be taken forward, its staffing and objectives. The review’s outcomes should be reported to us within 10 weeks of publication of its formal response to this Report. Type: conclusion | Number: 10 | Paragraph: 40 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: Given the evolving nature of the operational challenges in the Channel, the Government keeps the operational plan to tackle small boat crossings under constant review. Learnings from past operations inform our current approach. We are reluctant to publish comprehensive operational detail or strategy