Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants entered the UK in each of the last five years, broken down by vehicle type.

The Home Office publishes statistics on irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK statistics’ release on gov.uk. Data on arrivals by arrival method, sex, and age are published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular migration to the UK detailed datasets’, with the latest data up to the end of June 2024.

The Home Office does not publish arrival method breakdowns by vehicle type.