Question follow-through · 43909

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce small boat crossings.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 3 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 7 Apr 2025
Answer: 14 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce small boat crossings.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2025
Answer published
I refer the Rt Hon Gentleman to the Statements made by the Home Secretary when moving the Border Security Asylum and Immigration Bill for its second reading on 10 February 2025, and when reporting on the UK’s hosting of the Organised Immigration Crime sum...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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