Written Question·Home Office·UIN 54430
Undocumented Migrants: Offenders
Tabled: 22 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025
Question
Lewis Cocking
Conservative — Broxbourne
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who arrived in the UK by small boat in the last 12 months have criminal records in their countries of origin.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleSecurity and identity checks are carried out in respect of all small boat arrivals including criminality checks on UK databases for, amongst other things, convictions, pending prosecutions and wanted or missing reports. Further checks on criminality depen...
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