Asylum: English Channel
(asked on 14th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of asylum seekers who have crossed the Channel in 2022 to date.
This question was answered on 22nd November 2022
The Home Office publishes statistics on small boat arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular Migration to the UK statistics’ report. Data on asylum claims from small boat arrivals are published in the ‘asylum claims from arrivals’ section of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK’ publication. The latest data relates to the end of June 2022. Future irregular migration publication release dates can be found on the research and statistics calendar.