Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Murray of Blidworth on 9 November (HL2956), at what speed the process of identifying country of origin for individuals who have reached the UK by boat from France is being completed.

The Home Office have previously answered a very similar question in UIN HL2956 on 9 November 2022.

Data on small boat arrivals up to the end of September 2022 will be published on 24th November at Gov.UK in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK statistics’ quarterly report.

Further information on small boat crossings, with a focus on Albanian nationals, is available in a recently published one-off factsheet at Gov.UK, titled ‘Small boat crossings since July 2022.