Question follow-through · 27969

People Smuggling: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) charged and (b) convicted for offences relating to supplying small boat parts to gangs involved in smuggling people across the English channel in (i) 2022, (ii) 2023 and

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 3 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 5 Feb 2025
Answer: 12 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) charged and (b) convicted for offences relating to supplying small boat parts to gangs involved in smuggling people across the English channel in (i) 2022, (ii) 2023 and
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
As the Rt Hon Member will be aware, the recently introduced Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill proposes a new offence relating to the supply of articles for use in Organised Immigration Crime, through which we will seek to clamp down on the acti...

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