Question follow-through · 50674
Undocumented Migrants: Iran
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Iranian nationals have been detected arriving in the United Kingdom via small boat crossings in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025 to date.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Iranian nationals have been detected arriving in the United Kingdom via small boat crossings in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025 to date.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 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 by nationality and year is published in table Irr_02b of the ‘Irregular migration to the U...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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