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People Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) charged, (b) prosecuted and (c) convicted for knowingly assisting asylum seekers to enter the UK under s25A Immigration Act 1971 in each month since July 2024.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
1 Jul 2025
Target answer date
4 Jul 2025
Answer
4 Jul 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) charged, (b) prosecuted and (c) convicted for knowingly assisting asylum seekers to enter the UK under s25A Immigration Act 1971 in each month since July 2024.

  2. 4 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions and convictions for various offences by month at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool (latest data to December 2024), that can be downloaded from the Criminal Jus...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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