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People Smuggling: Boats

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dinghies used to smuggle people across the English Channel have been destroyed by the (a) Border Force and (b) French authorities in each of the last five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
23 Oct 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dinghies used to smuggle people across the English Channel have been destroyed by the (a) Border Force and (b) French authorities in each of the last five years.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 23 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    An answer was published; the current text is shown with its later correction below.

  4. 27 Oct 2025

    Answer corrected

    a) Border Force do not hold the requested data in an accessible format pre-2022. Records held since 2022 confirm 3,724 boats in total have been destroyed.Destruction activities are broken down across the following Calendar years: 2025 to date = 4162024 = ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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