Immigration Controls: EC Countries

Mr. Brady
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department’s policy is on the proposal for an enhanced role for the EU borders agency Frontex.

Mr. Byrne
The Government are supportive of Frontex. Its position on the European Commission’s proposal on Rapid Border Intervention Teams was stated in an Explanatory Memorandum of 7 September 2006 on Council document number 11880/06.