Question follow-through · 99367

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many small boat crossings have taken place in each of the last ten years, including 2025.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 11 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 15 Dec 2025
Answer: 22 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many small boat crossings have taken place in each of the last ten years, including 2025.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Home Office publishes daily statistics on detected small boat arrivals to the UK in the Small boat activity in the English Channel - GOV.UK(opens in a new tab) release.More detailed published data on small boat arrivals to the UK are provided in the ‘...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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