Question follow-through · 56731
People Smuggling: Boats
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) dinghies and (b) kayaks used to smuggle people across the English Channel have been seized by Border Force in each of the last five years.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum: Overseas Students · 9 Jun 2025
- Asylum: Lincolnshire · 9 Jun 2025
- Undocumented Migrants: English Channel · 10 Jun 2025
- Asylum: Resettlement · 11 Jun 2025
- Deportation: Lincolnshire · 11 Jun 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.
Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) dinghies and (b) kayaks used to smuggle people across the English Channel have been seized by Border Force in each of the last five years.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Nature Conservation and Timber: Arrests
5 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for offences related to wildlife and timber trafficking as part of Operation Thunder in each of the last five years.
Farms: Fraud
6 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help protect farm businesses from fraud.
Fraud: Lincolnshire
6 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of online (a) fraud and (b) scams were reported in Lincolnshire in each of the last three years.
Asylum: Overseas Students
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many higher education students have claimed asylum in the final six months of their course in each of the last five years.
Asylum: Lincolnshire
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are being housed in houses of multiple occupation in Lincolnshire.
Motor Vehicles: Glass
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cars have been seized for illegal tinted windows in the last ten years.
Windrush Commissioner: Finance
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what budget will be available to the Windrush Commissioner.
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
10 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that the people manning the engines of asylum boats are refused asylum.
Asylum: Resettlement
11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to continue the Talent Catalogue beyond the Displaced Talent Mobility Pilot.
Deportation: Lincolnshire
11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportation orders have been issued to illegal immigrants residing in Lincolnshire in each of the last three years.
Crime Prevention: Lincolnshire
11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been allocated to community safety initiatives in Lincolnshire in the last three years.
Undocumented Migrants: Employment
11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to confiscate the assets of people found to be working illegally.