Written Question·Home Office·UIN 59452

Undocumented Migrants: Offenders

Tabled: 12 June 2025

Answered: 20 June 2025

Question

Lewis Cocking

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2025 to Question 54430 on Undocumented Migrants: English Channel, how many people arriving in small boats have been found to have (a) convictions, (b) pending prosecut

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office conducts mandatory identity and security checks on all small boat arrivals. In line with the Refugee Convention, we will deny the benefits of protection status to those who commit particularly serious crimes and are a danger to the communi...

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