Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

(asked on 20th October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2025 to Question 75431 on Undocumented Migrants: English Channel, how many migrants were (a) exchanged with France and (b) prevented from illegally entering the UK from France between 11 June 2025 and 11 October 2025.


Answered by
Alex Norris Portrait
Alex Norris
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 27th October 2025

As of 20 October 2025, 42 individuals have been returned to France and 23 have been brought to the UK via the new safe and legal route. Between the two dates specified, a total of 9,686 of these dangerous and unnecessary crossing attempts were prevented as a result of our joint work with France.

Reticulating Splines