Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's data entitled Factsheet: Small boat crossings since July 2022, published 2 November 2022, how many of the Albanian nationals who crossed the English Channel in small boats from May to September 2022 have since returned to Albania.

The Home Office publishes data on returns by nationality in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on returns of Albanian nationals are published in table Ret_D01 of the ‘Returns detailed datasets’.

Please note this data relates to all returns, not just returns of individuals who arrived via small boat. Data on the method of arrival of people returned is not published.

Further information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data relates to the end of September 2022.