Written Question·Home Office·UIN 59454
Undocumented Migrants: Offenders
Tabled: 12 June 2025
Answered: 20 June 2025
Question
Lewis Cocking
Conservative — Broxbourne
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 and what proportion of people arriving by small boat undergo further checks on criminality.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThe 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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