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People Smuggling: English Channel

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 3 March 2025UIN 27968

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money was seized from gangs involved in smuggling people across the English Channel in (a) 2022, (b) 2023 and (c) 2024.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

Seized/Frozen

2022/23

£7,543,746

2023/24

£2,616,509

2024/25

£13,376,869

Seized and frozen assets relating to Organised Immigration Crime, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery for the financial years requested is available. These would include much of the seized assets in relation to people smuggling across the Channel.

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