North Africa: Refugees
(asked on 1st May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have made an illegal sea crossing between North Africa and Europe in the last six months.
This question was answered on 8th May 2018
​According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 27,807 people crossed the Mediterranean by sea from North Africa into Italy and Spain from November 2017 to April 2018.