"I will be ramping up the numbers and I hope to say more about that in the weeks to come. You start with a small first step and then you ramp up, which is exactly what we're going to be doing. We have a clear agreement with the French, we will want to see those numbers increase...I'm not going to get ahead of operational decisions."
"I want us to get to a point where the numbers that are being removed are acting as a deterrent and stop people getting on the boats in the first place. We have proved it can work, we've got flights off the ground, more are going this week, and we will be looking to ramp up the numbers."
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood defended providing £2,000 cash cards to some foreign criminals as the cheapest option for taxpayers to secure voluntary deportation. Forty-seven prisoners, including murderers and sexual offenders, are being deported to Romania partway through their sentences. Mahmood acknowledged that the optics are poor but framed financial packages as longstanding incentives to encourage people to drop claims and board flights home. She intends to increase removal numbers, pursue agreements with France to boost returns, and aims for removals to act as a deterrent to prevent crossings by boat. Flights have commenced and more are scheduled.
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