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Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainHome OfficeTabled Answered 12 December 2024UIN 17981

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of irregular migrants arriving by small boat possessed (a) a passport and (b) another form of identification in each year since 2018.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The information requested is not held in a reportable format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as it would require a manual trawl of case records to retrieve.

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