Written Question·Home Office·UIN 77996
People Smuggling: Boats
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 23 October 2025
Question
Sir John Hayes
Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dinghies used to smuggle people across the English Channel have been destroyed by the (a) Border Force and (b) French authorities in each of the last five years.
Answer
Alex Norrisa) Border Force do not hold the requested data in an accessible format pre-2022. Records held since 2022 confirm 3,724 boats in total have been destroyed.Destruction activities are broken down across the following Calendar years: 2025 to date = 4162024 = ...
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