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  • Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has today set out the first steps to establishing a new UK Border Security Command (BSC).

  • The Foreign Secretary travels to Albania to underline the success of our partnership to tackle people smugglers and illegal migration. 

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • A sophisticated network of UK-funded cameras worth £1.6 million has been installed on the Albania-Kosovo border to tackle illegal migration and criminal gangs.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Fifty more asylum hotels are due to be closed, building on the closure of the first 100 at the end of March.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • New fines of up to £10,000 for international general aviation flights that do not submit advance passenger information online up to two hours before departure.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Home Secretary delivers on plan to reduce use of asylum hotels with 100 asylum hotels returned to communities by next week, up from 60 at the end of January.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • The UK and other northern European countries discussed new commitments to disrupt the supply chain of small boats yesterday evening (Monday 4 March) .

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Several members of a suspected people smuggling ring have been arrested in a series of raids after allegedly attempting to traffic migrants through UK airports.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Home Secretary to call on the global community to take collective action on migration in speech in New York.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • The UK and France will go even further and faster in tackling illegal migration and build even closer law enforcement and security cooperation ties in 2024.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Rollout of new transformative legal migration measures begins, with new restrictions set to relieve the burden on British taxpayers and public services

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • A people smuggler has been jailed for conspiring to bring 16 Albanian migrants to the UK with fake EU passports and fraudulent airline bookings.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Border Force have made the highest number of illegal drug seizures since records began, as action at the border helps stop illegal drugs reaching the country.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Border Force seized almost one million items of counterfeit goods worth nearly £200 million in 2023, with fake electricals targeted in the run-up to Christmas.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Thousands of products containing endangered plant and animal species have been seized by Border Force.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Letter from the Permanent Secretary Matthew Rycroft to Dame Diana Johnson, Chair of the HASC and Dame Meg Hillier, Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.

  • The Home Secretary, James Cleverly, addresses Parliament on the Rwanda Treaty and the new Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Next steps set out for delivery of new laws to stop the boats.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Minister for Immigration, Robert Jenrick, made a statement to the House of Commons on illegal migration.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Fines are to be more than tripled for employers and landlords who allow illegal migrants to work for them or rent their properties.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government