Question follow-through · 11186

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of irregular migrants that entered the UK via the English Channel whose whereabouts are no longer known.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 25 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 29 Oct 2024
Answer: 4 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of irregular migrants that entered the UK via the English Channel whose whereabouts are no longer known.
29 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2024
Answer published
On a daily basis, the Home Office publishes data on the number of small boats crossing the Channel that have been involved in uncontrolled landings. The latest such publication, and a time series dating back to 2018, can be found at: Small boat activity i...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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