Written Question·Home Office·UIN 79797

Immigration

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of migrants who have arrived illegally in the UK since 4 August 2025.

Answer

Alex Norris

By its very nature, it is not possible to know the exact number of people who arrive to the UK illegally, and so we do not seek to make any official estimates of this. In June 2019, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a note on ‘measuring i...

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