Question follow-through · 46633
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the UK Border Force has taken to tackle Channel crossings by irregular migrants since 1 April 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 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
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the UK Border Force has taken to tackle Channel crossings by irregular migrants since 1 April 2025.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Home Office publishes the number of Channel crossings on a daily basis. Since 1 April, the UK Border Force has continued to work with their French counterparts and other partners around the world to take action against the organised immigration crime ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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