Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) adult males, (b) adult females and c) children have arrived via small boat since 5 July 2024.
Answered by Alex Norris
The Home Office publishes statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on detected irregular arrivals by method of entry (including small boat arrivals), age group, and sex is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK detailed datasets’, with the latest data up to the end of June 2025.
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