Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who arrived illegally via small boat since 5 July 2024 have been granted asylum.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
The Home Office publishes statistics on detected small boat arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on small boat arrivals claiming asylum and the outcomes of these asylum claims, by arrival year and quarter, is published in tables Irr_D02 and Irr_D03 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK detailed datasets’, with the latest data up to the end of December 2024. Data up to the end of March 2025 will be published on 22 May 2025.
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