The Government’s stated purpose of the Migration and Economic Development Programme with Rwanda is to deter people from seeking to arrive in the UK by irregular means. It is not clear as yet whether it will have that effect. We invite the Government to set out its evidence base for assuming such an effect in its response to this Report.

The Government’s stated purpose of the Migration and Economic Development Programme with Rwanda is to deter people from seeking to arrive in the UK by irregular means. It is not clear as yet whether it will have that effect. We invite the Government to set out its evidence base for assuming such an effect in its response to this Report. Type: conclusion | Number: 16 | Paragraph: 65 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: As a new policy, with the first relocations yet to take place, there is less evidence to draw on than in other policy areas and the desired deterrent effect that the MEDP seeks to achieve cannot be quantified with sufficient certainty at this early stage in isolation from wider efforts to tackle sma