Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Murray of Blidworth on 19 December 2022 (HL4032) stating "there have been fatalities, including the Purfleet incident in 2019 when 39 Vietnamese nationals sadly lost their lives", how many such fatalities took place in each year since 2010.

Official records of deaths are not held on any data base within Border Force.

These dangerous concealments are facilitated by people smugglers, putting profits above the lives of vulnerable people. The Government is determined to prevent further loss of life and break the business model of dangerous criminal people smugglers.