Question follow-through · 83832

People Smuggling: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted for offences related to people smuggling by small boat crossings since 1 July 2024.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 21 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 23 Oct 2025
Answer: 27 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted for offences related to people smuggling by small boat crossings since 1 July 2024.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
The information requested on those identified as being involved in people smuggling activity and on prosecutions is not currently available from published statistics.On returns, in the year ending June 2025, there were 2,330 returns of people who had arri...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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