Question follow-through · 40901
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions a small boat was recorded as entering UK waters with more than (a) 50, (b) 60, (c) 70 and (d) 80 people on board in (i) 2021-22, (ii) 2022-23, (iii) 2023-24 and (iv) 2024-25.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions a small boat was recorded as entering UK waters with more than (a) 50, (b) 60, (c) 70 and (d) 80 people on board in (i) 2021-22, (ii) 2022-23, (iii) 2023-24 and (iv) 2024-25.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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31 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Home Office has interpreted the question to mean boats carrying a) 51 – 60 people; b) 61 – 70 people, and so on. The Home Office does not record this information in terms of boats ‘entering UK waters’ but as numbers of people who arrived in the UK for...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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