Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those who are recorded as having entered the U.K. illegally were (a) women and (b) men in the most recent period for which data is available.

The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on detected irregular arrivals by age group and sex is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK detailed datasets’, with the latest data up to the end of June 2025.