Question follow-through · 82535
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has for (a) small boats, (b) dinghies and (c) other vessels that are seized for trying to transport migrants into the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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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
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has for (a) small boats, (b) dinghies and (c) other vessels that are seized for trying to transport migrants into the UK.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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21 Oct 2025
Answer published
All vessels that have been subject to seizure, are held by Border Force until the completion of criminal investigations and any resulting legal proceedings. The majority of boats, dinghies and other vessels are not fit to ever go to sea again, as they arr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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