Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

(asked on 27th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information is contained within the (a) Small Boats Enhanced Raw Data report and (b) Vantage Single Competent Authority Hybrid; and whether she plans to take steps to publish these documents.


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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 6th February 2023

The Small Boats Enhanced Raw Data report and the Vantage Single Competent Authority Hybrid are the source datasets where information about small boat arrivals and National Referral Mechanism (NRM) referrals are brought together, any processing applied and totals calculated. They are then used as the source data for reporting, including publication of demographic and asylum outcome data for small boat arrivals as published in the ‘Irregular Migration to the UK release’.

Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and availability of data.

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