Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

(asked on 8th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2019 to Question 215154 on Undocumented Migrants: Kent, how many suspected illegal migrants entered the UK by small boat in each month from October 2018 to January 2019.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 18th February 2019

We do not routinely publish this level of data on clandestine entry or attempts to enter the UK. Published data on the numbers can be found in the links below for the Home Secretary’s statement on 31 December 2018 and the subsequent Westminster Hall Debate on 30 January.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-bolsters-border-force-fleet-in-the-channel

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-01-30/debates/9E4482A1-3368-4E5F-89A3-A2B1853974C1/EnglishChannelIllegalSeaborneImmigration?highlight=illegal%20seaborne#

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