Question follow-through · 8693
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many small boats without permission to enter the UK departing from northern France have been disrupted this year, and of those how many migrants were (a) detained or (b) attempted a further crossi
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Undocumented Migrants: English Channel · 22 Oct 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many small boats without permission to enter the UK departing from northern France have been disrupted this year, and of those how many migrants were (a) detained or (b) attempted a further crossi
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
So far in 2024 (to 6 October) a total of 607 boats have been prevented from crossing the Channel as a result of our joint work with the French.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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