Asked by: Amanda Martin (Labour - Portsmouth North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 30583 on Undocumented Migrants: English Channel, on how many days Border Force implemented a red rating for expected numbers of small boat crossings in the Channel between (a) 5 July 2023 and 5 March 2024 inclusive and (b) 5 July 2024 and 5 March 2025 inclusive.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
Border Force records show that crossing attempts were assessed as being ‘likely’ or ‘highly likely’ on 117 occasions between 5 July 2024 to 5 March 2025, and on 61 occasions between 5 July 2023 to 5 March 2024.
Asked by: Amanda Martin (Labour - Portsmouth North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many days significant wave heights in the English Channel were forecast to be less than 0.5 meters high in each calendar month between January 2021 and December 2024.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information requested is set out in the table below:
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
2021 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 23 | 20 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 155 |
2022 | 12 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 169 |
2023 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 120 |
2024 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 12 | 10 | 156 |