Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of mobile phones confiscated from people crossing the English Channel illegally since 5 July 2024.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
From 5 July 2024 to 11 February 2025 Home Office Immigration Enforcement have arrested 58 individuals identified as small boat pilots using offences set out in the Immigration Act 1971, as amended by the Nationality and Borders Act 2022. The numbers arrested are set out in the table below:
Date | Number of individuals arrested having been identified as small boat pilots |
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 | 106 |
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 | 54 |
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022 | 117 |
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023 | 94 |
1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024 | 101 |
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