Question follow-through · 49135

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who arrived illegally via small boat since 5 July 2024 have been granted asylum.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
1 May 2025
Answer
7 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who arrived illegally via small boat since 5 July 2024 have been granted asylum.

  2. 1 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 7 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Home Office publishes statistics on detected small boat arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on small boat arrivals claiming asylum and the outcomes of these asylum claims, by arrival year and quarter, is p...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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