Written Question·Home Office·UIN 101685

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Tabled: 18 December 2025
Answered: 7 January 2026

Question

Mr Will Forster

Liberal DemocratWoking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants crossing the Channel in small boats present with either pre-existing medical conditions or injuries, or with injuries sustained from the crossing itself.

Answer

Alex Norris
These records are not held in a readily retrievable form, and it would only be possible to provide the information being sought at a disproportionate cost. Migrants who have made dangerous, illegal, and unnecessary crossings of the Channel by small boat d...

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