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Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who illegally crossed the English Channel were brought ashore by (a) Border Force, (b) the Royal Navy and (c) Royal National Lifeboat Institution since 5 July 2024.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
15 Oct 2025
Answer
21 Oct 2025 · 11 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 people who illegally crossed the English Channel were brought ashore by (a) Border Force, (b) the Royal Navy and (c) Royal National Lifeboat Institution since 5 July 2024.

  2. 15 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    Information of this kind is only readily available for whole calendar years and the current year to date, rather than the part year commencing 5 July 2024 when the present Government came into office. The specific information requested could therefore onl...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Diplomtic Relations: China

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Immigration: Armed Forces

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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