UK-France deal aimed at reducing number of migrants crossing Channel in small boats is scrapped
The pilot returned 1,117 asylum seekers to Britain and sent 1,087 to France, but officials said deportation flights will continue.
- On Wednesday, Britain's government scrapped the "one in, one out" pilot program with France after France reportedly requested a broader, Europe-wide agreement instead.
- Under the plan, asylum seekers arriving in Britain via small boats were detained and returned to France in exchange for an equivalent number of refugees using safe and legal routes.
- Between August 2025 and June 2026, the Home Office recorded 1,117 asylum seekers arriving in Britain and 1,087 individuals deported under the arrangement.
- The Home Office confirmed the scheme is "no longer processing new cases," though deportation flights will continue for those currently detained under the program.
- Lessons learned from the pilot will be used by the Government to accelerate efforts to return small boat migrants who have no right to remain in Britain.
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Scrapping migrant deal shows Government has ‘no real strategy’
THE scrapping by the Labour Government of the “one in one out” scheme with France now makes it clear that the Government has no real strategy to curb the levels of illegal immigrants entering the UK.
The temporary migration deal called “one in one out” that the United Kingdom and France concluded in the summer of 2025 is now ending. France suggested not to renew the agreement. In French view, the deal contained too many problems for the French government.
An agreement between France and the United Kingdom on the exchange of migrants has come to an end. According to the ‘one in,...’ principle.
France and the United Kingdom end a pilot project on the exchange of refugees via the English Channel, which was approved a year ago. The return programme did not bring about the hoped-for fundamental change.
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One in, one out, all done: UK and France scrap migration pactLast year the two countries struck a landmark deal to reduce the number of asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from France in small boats: for each undocumented migrant that the UK returned to France, British authorities would accept an asylum applicant with known family links in Britain. More than 1,400 people were officially returned to France under the scheme, which was crit…
London and Paris end the pilot agreement on the exchange of refugees via the English Channel. The agreement did not have the desired effect.
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