Written Question·Home Office·UIN 40899

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Tabled: 24 March 2025

Answered: 28 March 2025

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Question

Matthew Patrick

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many days Border Force would have implemented a red rating for expected numbers of small boat crossings in the Channel in (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23, and (c) 2023-24, if the existing methodology

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office has interpreted the question to mean the periods 6 April – 5 April for the years quoted. The Met Office changed its assessment criteria for likelihood of crossings in May 2023. The following figures set out the numbers of days per financia...

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