Question follow-through · 12574

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants have crossed the Channel by (a) age and (b) sex in each year since 2018.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 4 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 6 Nov 2024
Answer: 12 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants have crossed the Channel by (a) age and (b) sex in each year since 2018.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Home Office publishes statistics on irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK statistics’ release on gov.uk. Data on arrivals by arrival method, sex, and age are published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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