News and communications

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

• Updated: 22 May 2024

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.

• Updated: 15 May 2024

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

• Updated: 10 April 2024

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.

• Updated: 8 April 2024

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.

• Updated: 20 March 2024

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

• Updated: 5 March 2024

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.

• Updated: 28 February 2024

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

• Updated: 26 February 2024

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.

• Updated: 1 February 2024

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

• Updated: 30 January 2024

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

• Updated: 26 January 2024

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.

• Updated: 18 January 2024

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.

• Updated: 21 December 2023

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

• Updated: 12 December 2023

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.

• Updated: 7 December 2023

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

• Updated: 6 December 2023

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

• Updated: 12 September 2023

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

• Updated: 5 September 2023

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

• Updated: 7 August 2023

From Monday 24 July, children aged 10 or over will be able to enter the UK using eGates across 15 air and rail ports, helping families travel more easily.

• Updated: 22 July 2023