Question follow-through · 3185

People Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) intercepted and (b) arrested since January 2025 in relation to smuggling illegal migrants into the UK.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 20 May 2026
Target answer date: 1 Jun 2026
Answer: 3 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) intercepted and (b) arrested since January 2025 in relation to smuggling illegal migrants into the UK.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2026
Answer published
Data on the number of detected individuals arriving via illegal routes to the UK is published on .GOV.UK at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a05e3b7ee62840dba48a2c7/illegal-entry-routes-to-the-uk-dataset-mar-2026.xlsx.In...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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