Written Question·Home Office·UIN 40901

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Tabled: 24 March 2025

Answered: 31 March 2025

Named Day

Question

Matthew Patrick

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions a small boat was recorded as entering UK waters with more than (a) 50, (b) 60, (c) 70 and (d) 80 people on board in (i) 2021-22, (ii) 2022-23, (iii) 2023-24 and (iv) 2024-25.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office has interpreted the question to mean boats carrying a) 51 – 60 people; b) 61 – 70 people, and so on. The Home Office does not record this information in terms of boats ‘entering UK waters’ but as numbers of people who arrived in the UK for...

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