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Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people arriving on small boats died in the English channel in each of the last three years.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 6 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 8 Jan 2025
Answer: 15 Jan 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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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

6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people arriving on small boats died in the English channel in each of the last three years.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2025
Answer published
A total of 138 people are known to have died since August 2019 as a result of attempting to cross the Channel by small boat.Almost all of these fatalities have occurred in French territorial waters, and the records of these held by the Home Office are pri...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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