Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

(asked on 6th March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports were made through the Duty to Notify process for those people who arrived in the UK via small boats crossings between 1 January 2022 and 10 February 2023; and if he provide a breakdown by (a) nationality, (b) gender, (c) whether the person reported on was an adult or a child and (d) the First Responder agency making the referral.


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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 13th March 2023


It is not possible to match Duty to Notify (DtN) data to individuals who have arrived in the UK via small boats crossings; as the individual has not given their consent to enter the National Referral Mechanism DtNs are often anonymised, and DtN data is not entered onto immigration databases.

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