Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many days in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022, (e) 2023, and (f) 2024 Border Force implemented a (i) red, (ii) amber and (iii) green rating for expected numbers of small boat crossings in the Channel.

The Home Office has received regular assessments of the likelihood of Channel crossings from the Met Office since 1 September 2019.

The Home Office’s records show the following distribution of Red (Crossing attempts likely, or very likely), Amber (Realistic possibility of crossing attempts being made), and Green (Crossing attempts unlikely or very unlikely) ratings from 1 September 2019 to 6 March 2024: