Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

(asked on 12th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many migrants have been intercepted by the crew transfer vessels (a) Hurricane and (b) Typhoon while crossing the English Channel in small boats; and how many of those migrants were subsequently (i) brought to the UK and (ii) returned to France.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 20th December 2022

The Ministry of Defence does not hold a record of which of the crew transfer vessels are involved in the recovery of individual small boat migrants. All migrants intercepted by crew transfer vessels are brought to the UK. The total number of migrants who have crossed the English channel this year is 44,763.

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