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What proportion of small boat arrivals were removed in 2025.

Tabled: 7 July 2026Answered: 13 July 2026

Asked by

David Reed

ConservativeExmouth and Exeter East

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Industry (Sarah Jones)

We have made significant progress in developing a new industrial strategy and I am delighted to report to the House that we published a Green Paper on 14 October, setting out our plans for a modern industrial strategy. We have set our sights higher than the previous Government, we have thrown off their ideological shackles and we have worked in partnership with business and our colleagues across the nations and regions to set us on a path to a credible 10-year plan, delivering the certainty, drive and ambition that businesses need to invest in the UK.